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*** Slightly unrelated, but I think I've discovered what language Cthulhu would speak if he was real, dubstep. It's a sound that is inherently disturbing to the human ear and totally incomprehensible. Isn't that what Cthulhu's voice was described as?
* [[Terry Pratchett]] steered clear of this one: [[Discworld|Dwarfish]] is very difficult "if you haven't eaten gravel all your life", but isn't ''evil'' as such. Likewise, the Troll language, which seems to consist of tonal grunting. The words of certain spells, however, can make you feel distinctly ill. And a language called Black Oroogu mentioned in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' has "no nouns and only one adjective, which is obscene."
** {{smallcapssmall-caps|Death is said to have a voice like "the slamming crypt lids, in the worm-haunted fastnesses under the most ancient mountains." It is represented as Caps and Small Caps.}} When he gets an actual voice (in the computer games, for example), he tends not to be particularly sepulchral, but merely exaggeratedly deep and slightly echoey.
** War has a voice compared to clanging chunks of lead, and Pestilence to a drop sliding inside a coffin.
** Having a discussion with a troll in Troll language could very well lead to receiving a bonk on the head, though. You see, Trollish is in large part a body language, and trolls like to shout...
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