Character Sheet :: Languages

[Markraven]

I am in the middle of crafting my LOTR Hero's Journal Sheets and wanted to put this listing of langauges up for you guys to verify, add to, delete, etc.:

Adûnaic
Apysaic
Atliduk
Black Speech
Dunael
Haradaic
Khuzdul
Labba
Logathig
Nahaiduk
Orkish
Pûkael
Quenya
Rohirric
Sindarin
Silvan (Bethteur)
Umitic
Varadja
Waildyth
Westron


The way i want to do languages is have the base language listed above and then give regional/tribal dialects as "specilizations".

So a Hobbit from the Shire would have:
Language: Westron (Shirefolk)

[Scottomir]

Wow, that's a cool list. It includes several that I've never seen before and can't find it my Middle-earth atlas or encyclopedia. Apysaic and Atliduk?? Labba, Logathig, Nahaiduk?? Umitic, Varadja, Waildyth?? What are they...and do these come from Tolkien's anciliary writings, or just products of fan imagination? (They sure sound cool.) What is the source of "Bethteur" as the actual name for Silvan (I've always wondered what it's real name was!)?

I can think of a few other languages of Middle-earth, although I only know them by "common" terminology (perhaps some of those names above are the technical names): Northern Mannish (the archaic tongue of the men of Dale and Northern Rhovanion, related to Rohirric), Lossoth, Bolchoth, and Dunlendish. And if you want to go beyond normal speech, there's also Entish and the tongues of birds (the ravens and thrushes).

[Meneltin]

I think that was the list included in MERP.

Apysaic was spoken in Greater Harad, south of Far Harad, Labba is spoken by the Lossoth, Logathig is an Easterling language, Nahaiduk and Atliduk were languages spoken by the Beornings and the Woodmen of Mirkwood iirc, just as Waildyth, though the latter consisted of 'nature-sounds'.
Umitic was spoken by the Umli, a race of half-men, half-dwarves.
I'm not sure about Varadja, wasn't it the language of the Variags of Khand?

[Markraven]

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that it was basically from the MERP books.

yup, Varadja is listed as being spoken by Variags .

[Scottomir]

Wow, MERP really went far into new territory from the source material. It's a shame, I was kind of hoping that some of those names would have authorial authority from some of Tolkien's own writings. Oh well. I'm especially bummed about Bethteur...I always have felt "Silvan" is a dippy name compared to Sindarin and Quenya.