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| - Darnassian (Darnassisch, vrijuit vertaald) is de primaire taal van de night elves. Het heeft zowel geschreven als gesproken equivalenten. Er zijn twee specifieke dialecten: Darnassian, de huidige taal; en een ouder schift, een vreemd dialect, die kan worden gevonden in oude night elf ruïnes (wellicht Elven).
- The language of Night Elves.
- Darnassian ( Arathandris Silversky calls it Darnassae) is the primary language of the night elves. It has both written and spoken equivalents. There are two specific dialects: Darnassian, the current language; and an older script, a strange dialect, that can be found in ancient night elf ruins (perhaps Elven). This is one of the four elven dialects. The elven dialects in the Warcraft universe do not yet have any canonical grammar, and still are limited predominantly to a few names and phrases.
- Darnassian (Arathandris Silversky calls it "Darnassae") is the primary language of the night elves. It has both written and spoken equivalents. There are two specific dialects: Darnassian, the current language; and an older script, a strange dialect, that can be found in ancient night elf ruins (perhaps Elven). Night elves tend to consider such comparisons offensive. This is one of the four elven dialects on the planet of Azeroth.
- The term "Darnassian" predates the founding of the city of Darnassus by centuries. The language of the Kaldorei happens to be called Darnassian; but it cannot have been named after the city since it did not exist until a few years ago. Many people have expressed confusion over this, but I would like to offer a logical explanation. In the game, we in fact do find this to be true. Night elves tend to gravitate to places that are left to nature's ways (Teldrassil notwithstanding), and high/blood elves tend to take control of their environment and shape it to their whim. --Thaag
- Just as the naga, high elves, and blood elves are descended from night elves, so Darnassian bears some resemblance to the Nazja and Thalassian languages. There are, however, strong ideological differences between the night elves and their distant kin. Thus, a linguist must take great care in drawing comparisons between Darnassian and its two cousin languages. Night elves tend to consider such comparisons offensive. This is one of the four elven dialects. (see below)
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| - Darnassian ( Arathandris Silversky calls it Darnassae) is the primary language of the night elves. It has both written and spoken equivalents. There are two specific dialects: Darnassian, the current language; and an older script, a strange dialect, that can be found in ancient night elf ruins (perhaps Elven). The naga, high elves, and blood elves are descended from night elves, so Darnassian bears some resemblance to the Nazja and Thalassian languages. There are, however, strong ideological differences between the night elves and their distant kin. Thus, a linguist must take great care in drawing comparisons between Darnassian and its two cousin languages. Night elves tend to consider such comparisons offensive. This is one of the four elven dialects. The elven dialects in the Warcraft universe do not yet have any canonical grammar, and still are limited predominantly to a few names and phrases. It has been pointed out that Darnassian, an old language, shares the same root word with the name of the Night Elven capital, Darnassus, a city created relatively recently. Some reasons as to why this may be include: 1) the language was always called Darnassian, and the city was named for the language; 2) there was no name for the language prior to the foundation of the city, and so they bore the same, 3) the name of the language was changed, 4) "darnass" has a translation that is not yet known, or 5) Blizzard didn't necessarily think out all the continuity aspects of the city name.
- Darnassian (Darnassisch, vrijuit vertaald) is de primaire taal van de night elves. Het heeft zowel geschreven als gesproken equivalenten. Er zijn twee specifieke dialecten: Darnassian, de huidige taal; en een ouder schift, een vreemd dialect, die kan worden gevonden in oude night elf ruïnes (wellicht Elven).
- Just as the naga, high elves, and blood elves are descended from night elves, so Darnassian bears some resemblance to the Nazja and Thalassian languages. There are, however, strong ideological differences between the night elves and their distant kin. Thus, a linguist must take great care in drawing comparisons between Darnassian and its two cousin languages. Night elves tend to consider such comparisons offensive. It has been pointed out that Darnassian, an old language, shares the same root word with the name of the Night Elven capital, Darnassus, a city created relatively recently. Some reasons as to why this may be include: 1) the language was always called Darnassian, and the city was named for the language; 2) there was no name for the language prior to the foundation of the city, and so they bore the same, 3) the name of the language was changed, or 4) "darnass" has a translation we have not yet determined. This is one of the four elven dialects. (see below)
- The term "Darnassian" predates the founding of the city of Darnassus by centuries. The language of the Kaldorei happens to be called Darnassian; but it cannot have been named after the city since it did not exist until a few years ago. Many people have expressed confusion over this, but I would like to offer a logical explanation. Interestingly enough, the language of the high elves and blood elves is called "Thalassian." This may indicate that the two terms are actually terms of castes or social status. There are real-world examples of this in the English language, namely the terms "pagan" and "urbane." Pagan actually refers to the folk in the countryside, working directly with dirt. They were considered to be superstitious and stupid as they followed old and established rituals to follow the calendar in order to time the planting of crops and culling of herds and such. The people of the cities were not connected by cultural ritual to the cycles of life and death in the land as they did not farm. They had the leisure to pursue intellectual topics and explore other spiritual ideas. Therefore, the term "urbane" meant worldly and wise, and "pagan" essentially meant redneck. We have already seen that the developers of Azeroth's cultural environment are not ignorant of linguistic cues and that Azeroth does have a very rich linguistic environment. It is my opinion that this also extends to the terms "darnassian" and "thalassian." In many ways, these terms do reflect the English concepts of "pagan" and "urbane." If we go with the concept that "darnassian" means something akin to country bumpkin, then Darnassus would translate to "city in the country" or possibly "wild city" ("wild" being uncultivated land, not crazyfunpartytime}. Since Quel'Thalas is the name of the original High Elf lands, which were specifically cultivated to continue in eternal springtime and not left to the natural, wild cycles of the seasons; and we already know that "quel" means "high" as in "above or superior"; we can logically assume that "thalas" means "cultivated," with the insinuation that cultivation assumes a higher culture. So Thalassian would translate to "the cultivated" with inference to the culture behind the language being refined and elegant. In the game, we in fact do find this to be true. Night elves tend to gravitate to places that are left to nature's ways (Teldrassil notwithstanding), and high/blood elves tend to take control of their environment and shape it to their whim. I welcome any discussion on this subject. --Thaag
- The language of Night Elves.
- Darnassian (Arathandris Silversky calls it "Darnassae") is the primary language of the night elves. It has both written and spoken equivalents. There are two specific dialects: Darnassian, the current language; and an older script, a strange dialect, that can be found in ancient night elf ruins (perhaps Elven). Just as the naga, high elves, and blood elves are descended from night elves, so Darnassian bears some resemblance to the Nazja and Thalassian languages. There are, however, strong ideological differences between the night elves and their distant kin. Thus, a linguist must take great care in drawing comparisons between Darnassian and its two cousin languages. Night elves tend to consider such comparisons offensive. It has been pointed out that Darnassian, an old language, shares the same root word with the name of the Night Elven capital, Darnassus, a city created relatively recently. Some reasons as to why this may be include: 1) the language was always called Darnassian, and the city was named for the language; 2) there was no name for the language prior to the foundation of the city, and so they bore the same, 3) the name of the language was changed, or 4) "darnass" has a translation we have not yet determined. This is one of the four elven dialects on the planet of Azeroth.
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