Darnassian Darnassian ( calls it Darnassae ) is the primary language of the night elves . It has both written and spoken equivalents . There are two specific dialects : Darnassian , the current language ; and an older script , a strange dialect , that can be found in ancient night elf ruins ( perhaps Elven ) . The naga , high elves , and blood elves are descended from night elves , so Darnassian bears some resemblance to the Nazja and Thalassian languages . There are , however , strong ideological differences between the night elves and their distant kin . Thus , a linguist must take great care in drawing comparisons between Darnassian and its two cousin languages . Night elves tend to consider such comparisons offensive . This is one of the four elven dialects . The elven dialects in the " Warcraft " universe do not yet have any canonical grammar , and still are limited predominantly to a few names and phrases . It has been pointed out that Darnassian , an old language , shares the same root word with the name of the Night Elven capital , Darnassus , a city created relatively recently . Some reasons as to why this may be include : 1 ) the language was always called Darnassian , and the city was named for the language ; 2 ) there was no name for the language prior to the foundation of the city , and so they bore the same , 3 ) the name of the language was changed , 4 ) " darnass " has a translation that is not yet known , or 5 ) Blizzard didn ' t necessarily think out all the continuity aspects of the city name . Darnassian primer ( official translations ) . Here are a few common Darnassian phrases and words , for which the translations have been officially confirmed by Blizz ard : Night elf names . Night elf names always have a special meaning . First names derive from an elven word or the name of a famous hero having a totemic or ancestral connection . Surnames are indicative of the family line and often date back millennia . Word roots . By comparing similar words of known meaning , the following could be roots of words or words themselves . In - game parser . This is the list of words created by the in - game language parser for the Darnassian language , and is listed as language number two ( word range 101 - 202 ) in the Language text file . Note : The language algorithm used by the in - game " translator " merely makes the words " look " like Darnassian . It does not actually use a specific dictionary . Therefore , translated in - game speech isn ' t true Darnassian . Related languages . The novel " Cycle of Hatred " mentions " four elven dialects " . The Naga , high elves , and blood elves all speak languages derived from Darnassian . The Naga ( former Highborne elves ) , speak the language Nazja , which is as corrupted as the creatures who speak it . The language of the high elves , who were exiled from Kalimdor , changed into what is now known as Thalassian . It is also the language of the blood elves . Darnassian , Thalassian , and Najza seem to have many common phrases , as is evidenced by Prince Kael ' thas ' use of " Ishnu ' alah " , Lady Vashj ' s " Ishnu ' dal ' dieb " , as well as the names of the different elf subtypes , the Kaldorei , Quel ' dorei , and Sin ' dorei . The high elves have very long life spans compared to humans , so Thalassian might be so similar to Darnassian that it would be more correct to call it a dialect , rather than a separate language . However , various sources call them languages , and imply that there would be difficulty in communication between the separate languages . Beyond the current spoken version of Darnassian there is at least one more ancient dialect of Darnassian , written in Darnassian runes . However , it is possible that it is the language currently known as Elven which is also spoken on Mount Hyjal .