Glossary of the Languages of Golarion


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I'm a dirty immersionist who read too many Tolkien encyclopediae in my formative years ~ this kind of deep inquiry into worldbuilding elements that are not directly relevant to the game-as-game of Pathfinder (or any fantasy setting) is fun for me XD

Do we have any definitions for any words in the languages of Golarion? Like, do we know any words in Azlanti or Vudran or Taldane?

So far I've only found one ~ Cities of Golarian mentions that "Nisroch" means "Place of the Drowning Spirits". The book describes it, I believe, as either "the language of the ancient horselords" or "the ancient Kellid language" cuz back then the Nidalese were considered Kellid and not their own ethnicity (being their own ethnicity makes more sense imo), but I have mentally placed it as a word in the Proto-Avistani language I mentioned in my Nidalese linguistics thread.

Oh! and I just remembered that Nidal, Land of Shadow does give us the names of two horse breeds. One of them is chiardmarr, I think, but I can't recall the other one off the top of my head.

Are there any other words defined anywhere in any Golarionic language? I imagine place-names will be the most fertile crops here, as those seem most likely to be defined as Nisroch was.


Internally from I've recalled in the forums, the people at paizo try to avoid having any "concrete" in-universe names so that future writer don't have to reference a list of "in universe" vocabularies.

The closest is them using some word from an IRL who has a counterpart in Golarion, but usually these might be the "simlish" version of said languages.

So i dont think you'll find much


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Ooo I found another one!

The motto of Korvosa is in Archaic Taldane ~ "Trosker ep Styrk", meaning "Fidelity and Strength"


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And another! . . . Just a little too late to edit my previous post XD

General Azaersi's name means "Aza the Immortal" in Goblin.

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