I have always wondered what the actual language is called and where it origonated. Its the Enligh laguage in the game....

Well, punctually, how about:

Tamrielic

It's English. There's no way ashlanders and ascended sleepers and skaal speak something stupid like Tamrielic. /gameplay

They might, except for the limited abilities of mainstream marketing targets

the official language of tamreil, like Aldert said, is Tamreilic, not english.

It's Tamrielic, but is translated based on the version purchased. It is available in different languages: French, German and Russian to name a few.

I thought it was the old Altmer language called Altmeris Or something.

Tamrielic is based on the old Altmer language.

basic

Galactic or Visual?

BASIC.

There is no such thing as a tamrielic language. At best everybody is speaking Cyrodiilic because that is the language of the Empire, but I'd be surprised if everybody speaks it though.

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Ofcourse then you find a reference to it in the Skeletonmans interview. Doesn't make it any less silly though.

http://www.imperial-library.info/interviews/skelm.shtml

The language of the Elder Scrolls games is known simply as The Common Tongue. It is sometimes referred to as Cyrodiilic or Tamrielic. It is almost universally spoken.

Morrowind has the additional traditional minority language of Dunmeri, which is used mostly in place-names but also in slang and quotes. (see http://www.imperial-library.info for Dunmeri dictionary.)

Other Elder Scrolls languages are the one used in the book N'Gasta! Kvata! Kvakis! - actually esperanto! - and the old Ayleid language, Aldmeris:



NB, the Dwemer language is a dialect of Aldmeris, but mostly untranslatable.

Daedric, as used in Morrowind/Oblivion, is actually a script rather than a separate language.
http://www.imperial-library.info/daedric/

That's actually just a anti-Helseth news paper.

http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/trib_common_tongue.shtml

The newsletter is named that because of the common language.

Don't know where you got that from, Princess... although the language of Faerun (in the Forgotten Realms universe) is referred to as "Common" and sometimes "the common tongue". I haven't seen the language spoken in the games called that... unless it's in some pre-Morrowind book that I haven't read.

However, Tamrielic is a language, and Cyrodiilic and Tamrielic are not the same thing. To support this:

- http://www.imperial-library.info/savant/

So, formally the language is called Tamrielic, but is often colloquially called "the common tongue".

Fair enough... though I would argue that "common" is used as an adjective in that context... that it's labeled so because it's the language that most people in Tamriel speak. After a cursory search of TIL, I don't think that it's used as a name.

Thanks for the link.

So.............

What does that mean to have a language called Tamrielic? Nothing considering that there's no language called Tamrielic.

It's a sodlike quasi-gameplay thing. Not really worth wasting any brain cells on. Either English is simply called "Tamrielic" in Tamriel, or Tamrielic is "translated" into English so that the player can understand. Or maybe it's somehow both.

Hey. That kind of reminds me of Escher's http://www.artchive.com/artchive/e/escher/escher_gallery.jpg. Strange loops, ha ha.

More importantly, it's in Battlespire; you can berate a Vermai for not "speaking Tamriellic".

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"The Common Tongue" is clearly just the author.

Besides, Saying you speak "common" just reeks of D&D and bad Tolkien ripoffs.

No Common Tongue, please.

ITT we apologize into good things, not tripe.

I'd assume it's a creole of Cyrodiilic, Altmeris and the local language. Though Tamrielic might just be one of those convenience things that are there only to make sure we don't have to worry about translations.

Sorta like the universal translator or a babble fish.

Well, since there's nothing really to base the assumption other than saying that the language of the Empire is derived from the language of high elves, sure let it be mentioned just out of convenience.

My friends,

Whilst upon a sojourn to the town of Gnaar Mok in Vvardenfell some time back performing duties for His Holiness, Primate Volandrus Abor in the name of JHUNAL, I had the opportunity to speak with a Dunmer savant House Hlaalu retainer named Andilo Thelas. One topic that came up was of the "Altmer" and their language. This is what he said:



I hope this helps, and may the Light of Julianos be upon ye.


Yours in the Scrolls,


___The Word Merchant of Julianos