Language is innate to the Dov, the Dragons. To them, to be powerful is to be right; a verbal argument is a battle.
The language of the Dragons, commonly called Dovahzul by fans, has an alphabet the consists of 34 letters (excluding C), of which 20 are consonants and 14 can be considered vowels. Each letter has a rune with an angular, claw-like appearance, implying that the runes were designed so that they could be written by a Dragon’s claw.
To Dragons, their language is inherently magical. To mortals, years, perhaps decades of training is required to harness some of the magic of the Dragon Language in the form of the Thu’um, or the Voice. A Dragonborn has the advantage of being able to learn Words of Power instantly; however, they still need to find and learn them first, unlike the Dragons, who know them intrinsically.
Note: while the letter C has a glyph, officially, it is not used in the Dragon Language, and only appears in transliterations from The Elder Scrolls: Legends.
On the graphics, the letters surrounded by slashes are phonemic transcriptions in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), which provide a more accurate representation of the pronunciation of a letter.
For help with IPA, see the IPA Pulmonic Consonants Chart with Audio and IPA Vowels Chart with Audio on Wikipedia.
These graphics use the SR-Dragon script font by Johnnyhammerstix and Vaag256 on UESP, which is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5














