WHEEL OF TIME OLD TONGUE

The "Old Tongue" is unique to the Wheel of Time books, and covers a multitude of words and phrases. It's the language of such sayings as: Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin (The grave is no bar to my call.) Various people have managed to work out how it all works:

The Compleat old Tongue is a site which has been around for years and is the defining web document about the old tongue.

A collection of Old Tongue words and their translations as theorised by the site author. It is very good for those aspiring Brown Ajahs or those who just want to know some Old Tongue phrases.

Christopher Wright's old tongue dictionary. Includes an analysis of the old tongue orthography, and also old tongue syntax, old tongue verb morphology, old tongue noun morphology, old tongue adjectives, etc. Pretty detailed stuff.

The Wikipedia article on the old tongue is a good summary to understand what it's all about.

Qirien's pages about the similarities of the old tongue to modern languages. Comparisons to English, Spanish, French, Chinese and much more.

• Old Tongue to Dutch.
• Old Tongue to Spanish.
• Old Tongue to French.
• Old Tongue to Norwegian.
• Old Tongue to Swedish.
• Old Tongue to German.

This is a quiz for the complete wot addict, and will leave the other 99% of us looking rather dippy. The quiz is here, put together by Mashiara_Sedai.

PDF containing old tongue translations and symbology, compiled by Dragonmount with the aid of Robert Jordan himself! (Download 50 kb)

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