He heard his pursuers' voices, guttural strains similar to the goblin tongue.

Drizzt asked in the goblin tongue, the language that had worked for him with the gnoll band.

The drow tried to parlay, using the goblin tongue, but the orcs would hear nothing of it.

"And why did he cry out the attack in the goblin tongue?"

"The goblin tongue is known to me as well," Brickers replied.

"Bring me the blue crystal staff, if you find it on them," he said in the croaking goblin tongue.

"Hail and well met," the drow called in the goblin tongue, which he had learned during his years in Menzoberranzan.

Drizzt asked the gnoll leader, using the goblin tongue and trying to simulate the creature's dialect.

He looked at me as if I was speaking in the goblin tongue.

"We came to talk," Bruenor called out in the guttural goblin tongue, "as agreed."