Drûghic (Drû.) or Stonetongue was an ancient mannish tongue or language group. It was the archaic language of the Drughu people and thought to be unrelated to any other mannish, elvish, or dwarvish language-family (although at least the Pûkael dialect of the Drúedain seems to have had some similarity to the Haladinic and Daen tongues).
Pûkael, Beffraen, Chailukk or Iauradanli, Yatali-gan, Rûkhic, and Honnin were descendants of archaic Drûghic, and the eastern Brâric language family and its Wôlic, Brôdic, Târsic, and Tânic descendants were closely related.
Genealogy[]
Drughic Wordlist[]
- Abhân-khor-Drû - Púkel-men (possibly "living by breath of man")
- Aghan - possibly "Great Wise" or "Great Wisdom"
- Balûk - Morgoth
- Buri - possibly indicating "son" or "son of"
- Drûghan - Wise leader or tribal Conjurer
- Drughôr - fraternity or fellowship
- Drughôr-ghan - fraternity of the Wise or Conjurers
- Drûg - possibly "Human, living Person" (i.e. "one of the Drughu")
- Drughu - possibly meaning "Men" or "Humans" or "Family, Clan"
- Ghân - possibly "Wise one" or "conjurer"
- Ghân-Buri-Ghân - possibly Ghân son of Ghân, "Wise" son of "Wise"
- Gôr - A Pûkel-man (usually the name of the creator is appended to Gôr-)
- Gorgûn - Orcs (possibly literally "horribly born")
- Khîn - Son or Apprentice
- Khôrganoth - passage-hold
- Mam-ugi-mam - possibly "caring Mother" or "Great Mother"
- Pûra - Poison
- Sûzush - Varda; possibly "Shining One"
Notes[]
Tolkien himself apparently used the term “Druadan”[1] (amended to “Drúadan” in the second edition) for the language of the Drughu, though this may only refer to the Drúedain of Beleriand and later Gondor. In the context of this wiki, Pûkael is used exclusively for the language of the canonical Drúedain, while "Drûghic" is used for a wider language family which also includes dialects of Wild Men from the East and South.
It is unknown what Tolkien's intentions about the Drûghic language were, although Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Hindi, and Mande have been suggested as possible inspiration. The Neo-Drûghic or Pûkael languages, made up the the ICE authors, however, appear to be loosely based on a mix of Beaker, Hottentot and debased Celtic vocabulary.
References[]
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 99 (2007).