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Common is the language spoken by Humans. It is also the basis for Alliance Common.

Here are words that are used on a daily basis. Words with ? next to them are uncertain in translation.

Word / Phrase	Translated Word / Phrase
Horde	Majis
Hi	Lo
Yo	Ru
Good morning	Vohl nostyec
Good bye	Vohl nud
Goodbye	Novaedi (possibly Varum)
Hehe	Agol
Help	Uden
Help me	Uden lo
Dance	Gloin
Sit	Hir
Jump	Noth
Fire	Dana
Fish	Thor
Fish around	Thor daegil
Help	Lars
Alliance	Landowar
Incoming	Landowar
Orcs	Lars
Orc	Ros
Me	Lo
Undead	Aesire
Goblin	Ruftos
Night Elf	Ne'va ver / Garde vil ?
Lol / You	Bur
Kill	Agol
Protect	Sturume
Retreat	Nandige
Run	Hil
Honor :P	Bonn U(Bone you)

Uncommon words

These words are less common. It appears that a lot of them map to the same translation. The hash may have been designed to have a high collision rate.

Word	Translation
Around / Guards	Goibon
Cheeseburger	Mandosdaegil
Faith	Garde
Front	Garde
Frost	Melka
Nova	Ruff
Of	Va
Test	Uden

Speaking to the Horde/Alliance

It is possible to speak to players that do not speak Common by carefully constructing your phrases. While you cannot talk fluently to them or understand what they say back to you, it is not difficult to have a few phrases on hand or as macros. For example, if you say "Fff d Ss pp" in Common, it will come out to a Horde member as "Ver y Me an" ("Very mean"). With a little creativity, there are plenty of possibilities.

Here is a partial list of words that you can spell correctly using Common, and how to spell them. If you are putting more than one of these words in a sentence, it is usually most readable for them if you capitalize the first letter of each word.

If you are a Gnome, you may want to use Gnomish for this instead, as it has many more possibilities. EDIT: Please note that all of this can be translated in the EXACT same way when you use Gutterspeak for Undead. Now you don't need to feel left out in the fun! - Added by Zell

Result	Common/Gutterspeak
an	pp
any	pp d
anyone	pp d a zz
bore	xxx b
borne	clear
bury	ggg d
ever	b fff
every	b fff d
everyone	b fff d a zz
eye	b d b
far	hhh
loan	ee pp
loose	ee a bb
lose	ee bb
love	ee oo
lover	ee fff
me	ss
mean	ss pp
mere	ss aa
mod	eee
mode	eee b
never	zz fff
N l G G A	L t A A F
one	a zz
over	a fff
re	aa
reverse	aa fff bb
see	bb b
severe	bb fff b
tie	jj b
time	jj ss
use	p bb
value	cc hh b
very	fff d
you	d a p
erase	b ddd b
evil	b ppp
fare	hhh b
hire	bbb b
meantime	ss pp jj ss
overtime	a fff jj ss
retire	aa jj aa
reuse	aa p bb
verse	fff bb
vile	ppp b
yeti	d b jj

Comments: 30 Comments by XWikiGuest ...

XWikiGuest 10/02/2006 06:35:32
I don't understand- does every letter said in alliance common always translate to the same single letter in horde common? Does typing "a" always come out as "o"? If every letter always translates to the same thing, there's an error on this page because "a" = "g" on one of them, and "a" = "o" on another entry.

XWikiGuest 08/02/2006 05:11:08
PLEASE NOTE: Undead, you can do this too! Just turn on Gutterspeak. Here are the phrases I know:

I have learned that Gutterspeak comes out the same as Common. It's like the Alliance are reading what we see when they speak common. Any of the things that the OP has said above, Undead can speak it. Go undead ;) We don't need to feel left out. Gutterspeak: D A P EE BB Y o u LO SE Gutterspeak: GT AS SD D A P (i forget the rest, but it's in my macros somewhere) ME LO VE Y O U AN Y TI ME Orcish?: D E D = L O L Orcish?: L t A A F - N l G G A Gutterspeak; GT AS SD D A P1942 ME LO VE Y O U Ruff Orcish?: ??? - There is a way to say "A N A L" I forget it, though. Orcish?: ??? - There is a way to say "I kil a l l i a" but I forget it. Orcish?: 122 122 = Zug zug Orcish?: ??? - No kil dogg. Run around Refuge point shouting this in ghost wolf form. It's fun.

XWikiGuest 03/02/2006 23:19:06
Ok, i'm a little slow so just out of curisoty, how exactly to I get the horde understand if I speak Allaince? Do I just siply type in the aliance word and it reverse translates into english?

XWikiGuest 03/02/2006 19:56:24
I really love what you're doing here. ^^

XWikiGuest 21/01/2006 13:37:31
I'm pretty sure, but not postive, 'Waldair ' means thanks, in Alliance Common. Heard it a few times, all in situations (helping out some player who's getting flattened by a mob) where it would make sense that's the word. Could be mistaken though.

XWikiGuest 17/01/2006 21:48:47
An ally i saw running from ratchet to XR, higher then my level, said 'Uden y'. Im preety sure she wasnt asking for help, but Uden is listed only as help, could it mean something else?

XWikiGuest 04/01/2006 05:17:01
AGOL LANDOWAR KHAYT OVYGTA BUR EHCE K E K U G O..........................LOL

XWikiGuest 04/01/2006 05:12:40
Y CANT I TYPE anything?

XWikiGuest 04/01/2006 05:10:56
whenever i see alliance, i dont talk to them, I KILL THOSE FUCKS, SCREW ALLIANCE!!! KILL THEM ALL, AND STOP TALKING TO THEM!!

XWikiGuest 07/12/2005 18:30:48
Wow, this is some neat work.

I think Blizzard should let you learn other languages for a certain amount of gold. This might have been left out as you can see in your skills, for example:

Orcish: 300/300

which signifies that maybe at one stage they intended you to be able to learn other languages as a skill. It would be great for roleplay and diplomacy, says on a PVP server you see a group of enemy players on the way to the same instance as you, you could yell 'Don't fight, we just want to do the instance' or something and see what happens. Would beat spamming /beg at them.

XWikiGuest 03/12/2005 19:25:23
There's only a small word bank for each language, and translations are done more on word length than on content. A simple way to test translations is to use the internal SendChatMessage API command. It can only be used for non-public communications -- guildchat, party/raidchat, and whispers -- no yell, no say. Try saying /script SendChatMessage("Type your message here!", "WHISPER", "Taurahe", "YourName"); -- it will be translated per the internal translation hashes.

You can use this to test languages; unfortunately, since your ears can only hear in one language, you'll be translating for the opposite faction. For example, if I do /script SendChatMessage("This is a test of Taurahe","WHISPER","Taurahe","MyToonsName");, I'll see "To My Toons Name?: Taurahe? Eche wa i balo wa Shteawa". If a Tauren said "This is a test of Taurahe" to me, I'd see exactly that -- "Eche wa i balo wa Shteawa". Therefore, you're testing for Taurahe as heard by common ears.

I'm in the process of compiling a phrasebook, since that's the best we can do. I'm doing it by going by phenomes, since they can be combined to create words (ie, "ee oo" creates the two phenomes "lo" and "ve" as heard by horde ears). I'll update when I get a comprehensive notebook going.

XWikiGuest 01/12/2005 21:45:56
Horde says K E K with space is l o l

XWikiGuest 27/11/2005 22:34:55
I really would like to say: All your base are belong to us! or something ^^

XWikiGuest 27/11/2005 08:56:24
Try discover the full common to horde alphabet

XWikiGuest 24/11/2005 21:16:14
Keep it up. I would love to be able to chat with folk of the other side. (currently, my main and all but one of my alts are horde).

Good luck.

XWikiGuest 27/10/2005 04:24:44
Great idea, me an a friend have been thinking about doing the same thing, if we can find the cypher to how each word is translated then it would be to hard to create some sort of translation tool. Maybe also an ingame addon :)

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XWikiGuest 15/08/2005 20:32:19
I just started working on this yesterday, but it is a fascinating topic.

I don't have any alliance friends, so I'm left to use what is spoken. Downside with this is that I don't trust of any them to spell words properly on their end ;).

However, I have a sentence from a game guard that I've been looking at. Any thoughts on "ras" == "the"? It appears twice in my sentence. Problem is that given this and "va" == "of", neither "troll" nor "frost" make sense for "melka".

("Goibon Goibon O aziris ergin re ras nuff Garde Thorniss ne va ras melka" is what I'm working from right now.)

XWikiGuest 09/08/2005 22:51:58
I'd personally like to see more of this kind of thing, because what I have found is somewhat limited I'm going to be working on coming up with more words that can be spoken in one language and understood in another. thanks for everyone who has put in the work in coming up with this info so far lets keep going with it.

XWikiGuest 03/08/2005 21:26:02
A friend and i worked on a project similar to this a while ago. I got on an alliance character and he on his horde and both of us on ventrilo. What we managed to find out was a rather long list of words and the alphabet. I dont have the list on me right now but some of the horde -> alliance translations that we figured out were as such: "not not" = "zug zug" "is" = "ha" "aba" = "kil" "abab" = "dogg"

as you said, there seems to be a rather high rate of collision in the hash so there are alot of duplicate words, but the context does help to decipher it. Example: "bur" in common is "lol" right? it also translates as "you" so if you see "bur" in the middle of a common sentence its most likely "you" not "bur".

Think thats it, i'll dig up my notes up later and put them on here.

keep up the good work.

XWikiGuest 27/07/2005 15:48:25
hello

we are doing the same experiments on french servers.

As a reply for Brandon Baker: In a french location, if a human says "salut" (hi), an orc will read "melka" but it appears that "melka" is the translation for many other words

we have noticed the following:

all the words generated by wow translation are pronounceable
A 5 letters word will always be translated in a 5 letters word (not true if the word contains letters like é à ù ç, which is frequent in french language)
the algorythm translates entire words: "salut comment ca VA" is translated in "melka andovis na SE", "salut comment ca VAS" in "melka andovis na MOD"

we'll keep on working on that Thanks and bye :)

XWikiGuest 28/05/2005 16:05:45
What a great idea… and cheers to you for posting the (idiotic) comment of an uninformed brute. They at once claim a concern for the ruining of a good RPG, and then imply that their definintion of a good RPG is a first person shooter (one side just kills the other). It is indeed THIS type of player that ruins any semblance of the RPG aspect. They often have no concept of 'in character' or role playing whatsoever. Your project is precisely the sort of thing that helps in character immersion, since it would be natural for Alliance to want to at least comprehend the language of their enemies. My favorite Orc word is "Zugas" which means "Dance". There's an Orc who comes to Goldshire (on the Earthen Ring) and just keeps telling everyone "Zugas" and dancing up a storm.

Thanks for the great project!

XWikiGuest 23/05/2005 14:29:46
Orgrimmar = Regethor Wos = Lag MOD = FTW

XWikiGuest 23/05/2005 02:38:26
I think it will be much better to organize the translation by the jibberish word and list it's possible meanings. Something like "agol" can mean either "more", "many", "kill" or "want". Additionally, it's not working reverse, so if you say that as horde, alliance will only get back jibberish.

XWikiGuest 19/04/2005 19:01:11
Does anyone know if stuff translates in reverse too?

If I yell 'KEK' will it translate into 'LOL' for the horde? =)

XWikiGuest 16/04/2005 08:31:30
pkarjala: Shut up dork…

XWikiGuest 21/03/2005 20:59:12
add a possibly thing like i have for some words which i am unsure of.

-Shujiro,deathwing,europe servers

XWikiGuest 04/03/2005 16:52:18
An alliance friend of mine and I (horde) have tested the language a bit, and found that "gw" in horde common appears as "ha" in alliance common. Also, "gl" in horde common appears as "no" in alliance common.

Brandon Baker 05/02/2005 19:32:43
Should the reverse translation section be put on this page, below the normal translation or on its own page?

Also, does anyone know what "Melka" means? I hear it a lot, I think it's "troll" but I didn't want to add it since I wasn't positive.

pkarjala 16/12/2004 20:12:46
This page was recently defaced with the following message: "no offence but its just random letters that blizzard put in when u say the word… no realy

trust me i know from a good source… you'll just ruin the feel of a good rpg. Y ARE U TRYING TO BRING THE HORDE AND ALLIANCE TOGETHER UR LANGUAGE TRANSlATION WILL BRING THEM TOGETHER!!!!!!!

I HATE WHEN PEOPLE DELVE TO DEEP INTO THE POLITICS OF THIS GAME!! SIMPLY ONE SIDE JUST KILLS

THE OTHER OKAY??? I WILL DO ANYTHING TO STOP UR LITTLE MEETINGS ......JUST LEAVE AND STOP IF U KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR U!!!!!"

If you have issues with this project, please feel free to contact me via email. I will be glad to discuss your lack of grammar, spelling, and apparent intelligence. Additionally, this is by no means an attempt to "bring the alliance and the horde together" or "ruin a good rpg." It is simply a project to see if Blizzard has created a language translation system or not. If it has, great. If not, we go on our merry way.

In closing, if you feel so threatened by this project that you "will do anything to stop (our) little meetings," then I have no choice to simply lock this Wiki from user access should it continue to be abused. I have better things to do than to waste time with twinks like you.