Project Azeroth - A World of Warcraft Translation Wiki

Project Azeroth -> Translation Annex

Introduction

This page is the hub for the translation of each of the languages in World of Warcraft.

Please visit each specific language page for a word listing.

=ranslation system may be related to a lookup table that takes the contents of each word, runs it against a hash function, then spits out a word from the lookup table.

Suleyman has done some reverse translation, making it so that words spoken in one language actually come out as readable by another. See the specific language pages for examples.

New Translations

Please press the Edit Page button at the top of the screen to add your new information below. Be sure to include your name and the date that you posted it. It will then be sorted out into the lexicon.

A few simple translations - Vohl, in common, means 'what.' I believe Lars means Orcs. - Akhed.
I think "Re'ka ogg" (Orcish as heard by the Alliance) may mean "Thank you". - Amaelalin

donkey is ur mama

BUR as spoken and heard in Orcish is heard ad LOL in common - Hans 25/4/2005

How the Translation System Works

The translation system may be related to a lookup table that takes the contents of each word, runs it against a hash function, then spits out a word from the lookup table.

You type a word.
WoW remembers the number of letters and where capitals are.
WoW converts your word to a number and uses that to pick a word from a table (similar to the one below).
The new word is displayed with the same capitals, number of letters, punctuation, etc.
Making it possible for hundred's of thousands of words to convert into around 100 words with their own "flavor".

Here is an example from an addon called Lore. It shows a translation table of the High Elven language "Thelassian". The words below seem to be almost identical to Darnarssian, but Lore's hash function appears to be different than Blizzard's.

Language: Thelassian - courtesy of Blizzard

= { "a", "n", "i", "o", "e", "d" },
= { "da", "lo", "an", "ni", "al", "do", "ri", "su", "no" },
= { "ano", "dur", "tal", "nei", "ash", "dor", "anu", "fal", "tur", "ala", "nor", "osa" },
= { "alah", "andu", "dath", "mush", "shar", "thus", "fulo", "aman", "diel", "dieb", "rini", "anar", "t'as'e" },
= { "talah", "adore", "ish'nu", "ishnu", "bandu", "balah", "fandu", "thera", "turus", "shari", "shano", "terro", "eburi", "u'phol", "neph'o", "man'ar", "do'rah" },
= { "dorini", "shando", "ethala", "fallah", "belore", "asto're", "ishura", "alah'ni", "dor'ano", "al'shar", "mush'al", "aman'ni", "shan're", "d'ana'no", "il'amare" },
= { "anoduna", "dal'dieb", "thoribas" },
= { "mandalas", "eraburis", "dorithur", "neph'anis", "dune'adah", "fala'andu", "dath'anar", "shari'fal", "thori'dal" },
= { "banthalos", "thero'shan", "isera'duna", "ash'therod", "dorados'no", "shar'adore" },
= { "fandu'talah", "dor'ana'badu", "shari'adune", "t'ase'mushal" },
= { "u'phol'belore" },
= { "turus'il'amare", "shindu'fallah'na" },
= { "anu'dorannador", "asto're'dunadah" },
= { "fando’thorinish", "el’endunan’alora" },
= { "thoribas'no'thera", "ando'meth'derador", "anu'dorinni'talah", "esh'thero'mannash" }

There are also keywords that are not changed by Lore's translation system, but I'm not sure if Blizzard uses anything like this.

{ "thelassian", "darnassian", "darnassus", "teldrassil", "elune" }

Comments: 16 Comments by XWikiGuest ...

XWikiGuest
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XWikiGuest 27/01/2006 11:54:25
As a gnome, I hear "kek" a lot, and I assume it means "lol" It would be better to just write out letter translations for the "spaces talk" seeing as it is the most sound.

XWikiGuest 14/01/2006 01:32:22
wow everyhting EVERYONE said was useless seeing the site already says all that

XWikiGuest 21/12/2005 22:48:17
Although it isn't very useful, "Ghota ti" is Gnomish for "Prove it".

XWikiGuest 08/12/2005 07:51:57
i spent hours tonight working out tables for orcish and gutterspeak by rolling an alliance character and using the SendChatMessage function in the /say bar. what i realized finally is exactly what the original poster presented (no offense...i just wanted to go through the exercise). each language has a table of it's own unique words, created for flavor. so it's not a matter of reverse translation from horde to alliance...you'll run into the same issues if you communicate from gutterspeak to orcish...so allies and orcs and tauren alike will ALL see the same gutterspeak coming from an undead, based on the underlying language tables for that race. that's why what you might hear as common can't be typed back to them and be understood...what they see will be re-translated as orcish (or whatever). the orcish alphabet mainly consists of the letters "G K L A O N M" and that's what you're stuck with if you want an ally to understand. the gutterspeak alphabet is mainly "E O Y N T V U"...the letter combinations vary depending on the number of letters in the word but what you have to work with is very finite, and race specific.

XWikiGuest 20/10/2005 23:00:08
If you say "Ag an am p" in Common horde will hear it as "Me lo ve u".

XWikiGuest 07/09/2005 06:33:13
Hmm… My biggest concern, as a Horde player, is to attach a propper translation into a charge macro, so the Alliance see 'Waaagh!' when I charge them… >:) Unfortunately, A's and G's are easy to get across… but to what I've seen here, W and H doesn't exist… Oh well, guess they'll have to settle for a 'Aaaagggg!'

XWikiGuest 26/08/2005 17:52:36
XWikiGuest 23/04/2005 18:46:12 is right.

If you write BUR a Alliance Player doesn't read LOL - that's wrong.

Me and a friend did some test. If you write a-z on the horde side an alliance player will only ready e, o and y. It gets more interesting when you try it with numbers. For example 13 written on horde side is read as "ha" on alliance side, 7 is read as "l" and h as "o", so you can form the german word "hallo".

Theoretically you could try all numbers from "1" to "10000000" and all possibilities from "a" to "zzz" and create a table with which you could form common phrases. But that would be a very "unprofessional" method. If we could find out in which exact way WoW "mixes up" the numbers and letters we could create a Translation Tool or AddOn.

These are only my thoughts to this subject and Plz excuse my English :)

bye, Main

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XWikiGuest 09/08/2005 19:01:00
Possibly if you have 2 accounts you can have someone on alliance and someone on horde meet in one area then have lets say the horde char. say something and see what it comes out as on the alliance char. then try typing what the alliance heard the horde char. say on the horde char. and see what the alliance char sees then.

XWikiGuest 07/07/2005 21:31:28
INCOMING ( English/typed by Horde ) = osh'kava ( Seen By Alliance )

FOR THE HORDE = kil mog ro'th

I = L

YOU = ogg

HATE = kagg

ALPHABET: ENGLISH TO HORDE ( as seen by alliance ) typed with spaces in between each letter =

a=g b=g c=o d=l e=o f=a g=o h=o i=L j=n k=L L=n m=a n=o o=N/L p=L/N q=L/G r=L/N s=A/N t=N u=o v=g

w, x, y, z = missing from language

XWikiGuest 23/04/2005 18:46:12
The problem is that the translations isn't working in reverse...Allience writes LOL horde sees BUR horde writes BUR back Allience sees LOK there is 5 letters in the horde vocalulary (a-z is only translated into these 5 letters) if you write with spaces between the lettes namely A(F) G(A) L(D) N(J) and O(C) so it would be possible to write L O L by typing D C D but not very usefull, the allience language has O E Y U if you write with spaces so you can write Y O U if you feel like it.... An allience player see MAZA if a horde yells NOOB and the horde see VRUM if the allience writes Noob....written back the insult isn't working unless you know what it means. So the only way you can communicate with an allience player if you are horde is to learn their language....and they need to learn yours. Majis means Hello in common as it was said before...so if someone says that to you ingame your Hello will be Kazum to them.

XWikiGuest 03/01/2005 16:20:33
it isn't that easy. for example the most common thing I see alliance characters yell is "bur" which I take to mean "lol" but If I type in "bur" the alliance characters see that as gibberish.

XWikiGuest 19/12/2004 05:27:26
Also, Majis = Hello