Faceless (language)

Faceless is the presumed language of the faceless one race.

Faceless primer

Official translations

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• "Shgla'yos plahf mh'naus" = "They who dine on lost souls know only hunger."
• "Gul'kafh an'shel. Yoq'al shn ky ywaq nuul." = "Gaze into the void. It is the perpetuity in which they dwell."
• "Ywaq puul skshgn: on'ma yeh'glu zuq." = "They drink your fear: it is the blood of life."
• "Ywaq ma phgwa'cul hnakf." = "They are the whisper on the shivering wind."
• "Ywaq maq oou; ywaq maq ssaggh. Ywaq ma shg'fhn." = "They do not die; they do not live. They are outside the cycle."
• "Iilth vwah, uhn'agth fhssh za." = "Where one falls, many shall take its place."
• "Uulwi ifis halahs gag erh'ongg w'ssh." = "The shadow of my corpse will choke this land for all eternity."
• "Yrr n'lyeth... shuul anagg!" = "Here lies, true power!"

Untranslated words or phrases

• "Shur'nab... shur'nab... Yogg-Saron!"
• "F'lakh ghet."

Speculative single-word translation

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Words

• "Ag" = us
• "Ak' " = our
• "Agth" = shall
• "Agthu" = this world (possibly the Faceless name for Azeroth)
• "An' " = in/into
• "Eqnizz" = drive/motivate
• "Ez" = O
• "Fhn" = cycle
• "Fssh" = glory
• "Gag" = shall (synonym to "agth")
• "Gul'kath" = gaze/look
• "Guulphg" = sustain
• "H'iwn" = all
• "Hoq" = me
• "Huqth" = sate
• "Iggksh" = oppose
• "Iilth" = you (the one word can mean both singular and plural, as in English)
• "Kaaxth" = one thousand
• "Kyth" = see
• "Lwhuk" = devour
• "Ma" = is/are
• "Magg" = suffering
• "Mh" = only
• "Naggwa" = unending
• "Naus" = hunger
• "Nuul" = dwell
• "Nuq" = adorn
• "N'zoth" = seeker
• "On" = it
• "Oou" = die
• "Phquathi" = destroyer
• "Plahf" = know
• "Puul" = drink
• "Qam" = return
• "Qor" = endless
• "Qov" = heart
• "Shel" = void
• "Shg' " = beyond/outside
• "Shgn" = fear
• "Shn' " = within/inside
• "Shuul" = death
• "Sk' " = your
• "Ssaggh" = live
• "Tek" = skull
• "Thoq" = for
• "Thyzak" = reclaim
• "Uhnish" = endless (synonym to "qor")
• "Uothk" = drown
• "Uq" = power
• "Uull" = darkness
• "Uuyat" = agony
• "Vorzz" = sing
• "Vwahuhn" = reckoning
• "Vwyq" = again/once more
• "Wah" = wing
• "Woth'gl" = servant
• "Xig" = how (the manner in which something happens)
• "Yahf" = soul
• "Yawifk" = strengthen
• "Yeh'glu" = blood
• "Yu'gaz" = faithful
• "Ywaq" = they
• "Zaix" = praise
• "Zuq" = life
• "Zzof" = victory

Conjunctions

• "Maq" = Conjunction meaning "do not" (Equal to English "Don't")
• "On'ma" = Conjunction meaning "It is" (Equal to English "It's")
• "Shg'fhn" = Conjunction meaning "Outside the cycle"
• "Qi' " = A prefix used to indcate the future tense; "qi'ma" = will be, for example. This is similar to the suffixes -á, -é, -án, and -ás in Spanish.

Notes

• It is quite possible that the language is not original to the faceless ones, but rather the Old Gods, or just Yogg-Saron himself, as during the encounter in Ulduar, he roars two lines which follow the same language pattern.

Trivia

• The language bears a resemblance to, and is no doubt inspired by, R'lyehian - the language of the Great Old Ones in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu".