This is a collection of reputable materials relating to the study of Dovahzul.
US videogame strategy guide publisher Prima Games has published two official game guides for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition.
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Their first publication, written by David S. J. Hodgson and Steve Stratton, was The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Official Game Guide, published 2012. The guide includes 3 pages (p. 645-647) on the dragon language, sharing a key for the alphabet, some common words, and translations of the word walls from the base game.
Their second publication, written by Hodgson alone, was entitled The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition Official Game Guide, published in 2013. Pages 1096-1099 build upon the previous iteration by translating the new word walls from the game's Hearthfire, Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLCs.
In an article published on Prima Games' website on November 7th, 2011, author David Hodgson writes that he and his co-author Steve Stratton had "a massive support structure from both Bethesda and Prima", which suggests that they may have had access to internal information that was never released to the public or made it into the final game. This explains why some words in their translation list are not known to be used anywhere in-game.
Both books contained a reference to an online word list, which has since been removed, though copies remain on the internet archive.
Companion to the official game guides, Prima Games published an online list of translations. The list was removed from the site sometime between May 17th and June 14th 2016, though it is still accessible via the Wayback Machine.
The online list contains translations for words that do not appear in-game or in the official game guides. Interestingly, it lists sik to mean "rune" or "word", while Bethesda's internal documentation lists it to mean "run" or "word". Perhaps this was a typo on Bethesda's part that Prima assumed to correct.
Perhaps the most well-known and significant resource pertaining to the study of Dovahzul is the forum known as thuum.org. Founded on or before January 13th 2013, it was the home of the Dovahzul community for many years.
Unfortunately, thuum.org has experienced a decline since its administrator "Paarthurnax" ceased contributing to the site after the site's 6 year anniversary in 2019. Since 2023, the forums have become plagued by bots, and the site had a month-long outage in 2024 leaving many scared that it would disappear entirely and prompting the creation of this site.
Thuum.org contains an extensive dictionary as well as an impressive collection of fan-made material and thousands of forum threads. Should the site ever go down permenantly, all its content is backed up within unslaad.org's repository.
Founded in 1998 under the name Xanathar's Library, The Imperial Library (or "TIL" for short) is a fan site dedicated to the lore of The Elder Scrolls. As of December 2024, their 15 librarians care for over 7,000 documents, a limited number of which pertain to Dovahzul.
The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages - or UESP, for short - is a collaborative source of knowledge regarding the Elder Scrolls series founded in 1995.
24 community-made Dovahzul courses can be found on the memrise community courses site since community courses were removed from the Memrise app on 31st March, 2024.
Quizlet user OblaanBo created a set based on memrise user Nol's well-known course. According to the description, the set remains incomplete to this day.