Tolkien only provides us with a single word in the speech of the Dunlendings, ‘Forgoil’, which translates as ‘Strawheads’. This, along with other uncomplimentary terms such as ‘Robbers of the North’, was one of the Dunlending names for the Rohirrim.

In the absence of any other information about the Dunlending language, I decided to base it on Cymraic (Welsh), and hence have used the term ‘Dunraic’. This choice is not completely unsupported – in Appendix F of ‘Lord of the Rings’ Tolkien tells us that many Hobbit names in Buckland were based on the former language of the southern Stoors, which was related to the Dunlending tongue, and at least one such name (Meriadoc) is actually Breton in origin. In fact, Tolkien said that these names "had a style that we should perhaps feel vaguely to be ‘Celtic’". Anyway, a glossary of some Dunraic words is given below.