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. 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. Night elves tend to consider such comparisons offensive. Thus, a linguist must take great care in drawing comparisons between Darnassian and its two cousin languages. There are, however, strong ideological differences between the night elves and their distant kin.

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 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).

It has both written and spoken equivalents. Darnassian ( Arathandris Silversky calls it Darnassae ) is the primary language of the night elves.

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