Goblin language

Goblin is a language spoken by goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears, norkers, and xvarts. It uses the same script as the Dwarven language.

Selected glossary

Goblin to English

• Bree-Yark: We surrender! (The Keep on the Borderlands)
• Durbuluk: Dominators (The Sunless Citadel)
• Guthash: Bloated One (The Sunless Citadel)
• Guul: War (MMIV)
• Hrun: War (DRA 309)
• Hrun'doum: War drum (DRA 309)
• Ken: Female (added to the end of a female name in hobgoblin culture) (DRA 309)
• Kon: Male (added to the end of a male name in hobgoblin culture) (DRA 309)
• P'doum: Talking drum (DRA 309)
• Vorg: Worg (MMIV)

English to Goblin

• Bloated One: Guthash (The Sunless Citadel)
• Dominators: Durbuluk (The Sunless Citadel)
• Drum: Doum
• Talking drum: P'doum (DRA 309)
• War: Hrun (DRA 309), Guul (MMIV)
• War drum: Hrun'doum (DRA 309)
• War worg: Guulvorg (MMIV)
• We surrender: Bree-yark (The Keep on the Borderlands)
• Worg: Vorg (MMIV)

Bibliography

• Cordell, Bruce R.. The Sunless Citadel. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.

• Edwards, Terry. "Paragons of War: The Ecology of the Hobgoblin." Dragon #309. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2003.

• Gygax, Gary. The Keep on the Borderlands. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1979.

• Kestral, Gwendolyn. Monster Manual IV. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2006.