Languages in Runeterra

Korios·Jun 4, 2017·5 votes·3,588 views

Do regions have unique languages? Or they just all speak English (basic). It would be cool to learn about ancient shurimian or targonian.

10 Comments

SharjoJun 4, 20177 votes

There's ancient and modern Shuriman, Buhrun, several dialects of Ionian, Ur-Noxian and Va-Noxian, to name a few that I recall.

Whyte LyonJun 4, 20172 votes

If memory serves me last and only time a Noxian language was mentioned, was Ur-Nox. So where did this "Va-Noxian" dialect that suddenly gains my attention come from?

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ItsbeghdevJun 5, 20172 votes

AFAIK all Void champions have Shuriman names, probably modern and in either the dialect spoken around Azir's capital city or that spoken closest to the former location of Icathia.

ItsbeghdevJun 5, 20173 votes

Inclined towards Icathia because they've got some really different names from both ancient Ascended Shuriman champs and modern ones, bearing more resemblance to the only attested ancient Icathian name "Jax". Attributing the differences to an Icathian substrate is appealing.

RiotRiot MEMEMEMEMEJun 7, 20173 votes

Not sure about other regions/races, but Vastayians? (I dunno what the plural of Vastaya is) Have their own language, you can hear Xayah and Rakan speaking it to each other sometimes.

Chromatic EagleJun 7, 20171 votes

Does I think vary by tribe?

OceanicEyesJun 4, 20171 votes

I think there's some unique languages, as I'm assuming Yasuo speaks some Ionian with some of his attack lines. Karma too perhaps?

ProtestantCaesarJun 4, 20171 votes

And Shen says something when he ults, but I can't tell what it is.

ItsbeghdevJun 5, 20171 votes

Karma's ancient Ionian mantras were apparently given (rather disappointing IMO) translations quite a while back by some "player support escalation specialist", back when they were all one word longer.

ItsbeghdevJun 5, 20171 votes

They ought to just hire a team of conlangers to come up with a full grammar of every language spoken on Runeterra. if that doesn't happen I can and will come up with my own garbage and aggressively post it on C&C lol