Character Languages

**Notice:** This **article** uses content directly taken from the Character Languages **article** at the Vampire Diaries Wiki, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.Every character on *The Vampire Diaries*, *The Originals*, and *Legacies* speaks some form or variant of a language. The predominant language spoken on the original broadcasts of the show is American English, though variants of this language, as well as entirely different languages are used, often with English subtitles.

## Aramaic

* The Aramaic language was spoken dating back to Biblical times (3rd Millennium BC to 1st Millennium AD), but due to the complexity of the Aramaic language, there are few people who have the knowledge of the language necessary to translate text or words, depending on the intention.
* Aramaic script was widely adopted for other languages and is ancestral to both the Arabic and modern Hebrew alphabets.
* Qetsiyah was a notable speaker of Aramaic as was shown in her spells, and the connection her name and possible origin.
* Klaus also spoke the language.
* Hunter's Mark & The Sword of Alexander have Aramaic writings.

## Bulgarian

* Katerina, Liliya, Veselina, Teodosi, Viktoriya, Aleksi, and Nataliya Petrova spoke Bulgarian.
* Klaus and Evelyn also speaks Bulgarian.
* Due to her mother and half-sister, Liliya and Mariya, teaching her; Nedelya also speaks Bulgarian.

## Czech

* The Travelers use this language for their spells and rituals.

## English

* Most of the characters speak English with an American accents. Some characters have distinctive accents when speaking English, showing their countries of origin and those include:
	+ Scottish Accent — Galen Vaughn and Alistair Duquesne
	+ British Accent — Lorenzo and the Mikaelson Family

## French

* The French Quarter witches, as well as most of the New Orleans witches, use this language for their spells and rituals.
	+ Many New Orleans witches, particularly those born in Algiers and the Tremé, along with some French Quarter witches, such as Céleste Dubois, use Louisiana Creole (Kouri-Vini), a French-based Creole language.
* Isobel Flemming and Cherie speak French.
* Rebekah and the casket girls spoke French in the 18th century.
* Niklaus spoke French in the 19th century.
* Elijah and Antoinette spoke French.
* Evelyn and Leonidas speak French.
* Hope, Eirik, and Adina also speak French due to Evelyn teaching them.

## German

* Klaus and Greta Sienna spoke German in the 1930s.

## Italian

* Leonardo DaVinci and Cleo Sowande speak Italian. Jed speaks a little Italian because he was on a vacation in Rome.
* Alexander and Rebekah lived in Italy in the 12th century and were presumably fluent in Italian.

## Japanese

* Kurutta and Josie Saltzman speak Japanese.

## Old Norse

*Main Article: Runes*
* Ancient Nordic witches such as Dahlia and Freya use this language for their spells and rituals.

## Spell Language

* It is the language used by most witches for various spells and rituals. The language is similar to Latin. Kat Graham calls it "the Plecan" after the show's creator Julie Plec, because "it is actually a mix of Latin and some words that look like real words".

## Yoruba

* Cleo Sowande and her grandmother speak and cast black magic spells in Yoruba. Furthermore the last name is Yorubian.