About LoL's fictional languages

Ithil Snek·5/10/2017, 2:40:57 PM·11 votes·9,296 views

/!\ I am not a native english speaker so if there are mistakes, tell me!

So far we know that Vastayan and Shuriman languages are a thing in LoL.

We already know few Vastayan words and their translation: Mu'takl : traitor Miella : Honey (affective meaning towards a female Vastaya) Mieli : Honey (affective meaning toward a male Vastaya)

And we may know Shuriman words as well:

For example, there are in Shurima a void monster species called the Xer'sai, whose queen is Rek'sai. This species lives in the Sai desert, if we assume that the desert's name was given by Shurimans, we can logically say that the Xer'sais and Rek'sai were given their names by Shuriman as well. This said, there is 3 shuriman words we know: "Xer", "Rek" and "Sai". Considering that Rek'sai is the Queen of the Xer'sai, we can assume that "Rek" means queen. This said, we can find out that "Xer" is not only in Xer'sai but also on Xerath. Taking in consideration that Rek is the queen of the Xers and that Xerath was a slave, we can imagine that Xer means "Servant" or something similar. Then, we can find out even more things, Rek'sai and each voidborn champions/creatures we know have a namethat loos like this: xxx'xxx(x), which mean that "cho", "gath", "vel", "koz", "kha", "zix", (and each part of a voidborn monster's name) may be a shuriman word. Then again if we split Azir's and Sivir's names like we did with Xerath to theoretically find the meaning of the word "xer", we have the words, "az", siv" and "ir". Note that in the Shurima story "Bloodline", the hierophant that claims to be one of Azir's scion (chapter 6) is called Azrahir, we can split the name to get "azrah" and "ir" again. We can guess that "ir" is a word used to say if someone belongs to the royal family of Shurima.

This is so far what I have found but, honestly if Riot is planning to make these languages complete enough to be spoken like Tolkien's Elvish, it would be awesome.

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RiotBioluminescence5/10/2017, 3:57:10 PM15 votes

Another fictional language to look into (and another WAAARGHBobo creation, I believe) is the language of the Buhru people (Illaoi). She has a few lines spoken in her people's language in the VO, for example. A few threads out there that discuss it if you search.

Kaisergarde5/10/2017, 4:46:27 PM4 votes

Is the Vastayan language the same or related to ionian? (I mean what karma speaks)

Btw what is with this word? https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/a/ad/Xayah.move33.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20170422022652

Idk how to write it

Fasmodey5/10/2017, 3:16:19 PM2 votes

Xerath has meaning of ''little cunning demon'' or something similar according to WAAARGHBoo iirc. It was used to be mocking, like people wouldn't take it serious in Xerath's human life. But after Xerath's Ascension, meaning of name also has changed thanks to Nasus. People now know it as something seriously devilish. Like name of the Voldemort, people avoid to speak it.

I'm pretty sure Xer doesn't mean something equal to cuteness and innocence of baby bunnies either.

Edit: I found the answer.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/f2tgimyd-something-interesting-about-the-shuriman-language?comment=001a0000000000000000

Xer seems like also has meaning of ''hateful and ''devil''.

THE RlVER KlNG5/10/2017, 11:42:53 PM1 votes

I actually explored the Vastayan language in the lengthy color piece I wrote for a champion concept.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/x7pVEOyQ-champion-concept-wanno-the-eternal-traveller

Ask the Herald5/11/2017, 5:55:14 AM1 votes

Wait.....Xerath's name means something to do with devils? But didn't Azir name him Xerath because it meant "one who shares" because they met in a library or something?