Players Translate The Mysterious Language In Tunic
Tunic features a mysterious language that appears throughout the game in various forms including the in-game guide. While players are supposed to intuitively understand the strange glyphs, a couple of them such as Reddit user Oposdeo have been actively trying to translate the language.
Tunic is described as an “isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.” Players get to explore a “ruined land” where they “confront colossal beasts, collect strange and powerful items, and unravel long-lost secrets.” While the game doesn’t actually involve translation, players have apparently added the language to this list of secrets.
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“I picked up the game a bit ago really eager to crack this language,” Oposdeo noted on Reddit. “I wrote up a handy guide for my own use as I translate all of the text in the game.” The player went on to say that “I've translated maybe ten guidebook pages to find all these symbols, so I'm quite confident in them, though maybe there's a couple rare ones missing.”
When it comes to language structure, Oposdeo said that “of the 44 English phonemes, I think two are not used, since they have very similar alternatives and I think the ‘ure’ phoneme in ‘pure’ is treated as ‘ore’ in this game, as the symbol is used for words like 'your' and 'north' despite there not being a formal ‘ore’ phoneme.” Oposdeo has put together a list of letters, breaking them down into vowels and consonants.
"Reading the pages usually gives lots of nice lore and flavor as well as concrete explanations of what the pictures are hinting," Oposdeo pointed out. "You don't usually learn too much extra gameplay wise, but you can definitely discover things earlier than
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