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reibekuchen

1 year ago

The real question is... what languages do trolls speak? There are at least two languages spoken on Beforus ("English" and "Japanese") and it's probably the same for Alternia, BUT

Tavros proves us that there's also "Spanish" on Alternia

I'm not sure, if other languages were referenced by trolls as well, but I think it's already enough to state that they've got something fun going on with languages. Unfortunately, it's never directly addressed in the comic (as far as I know), but it all makes me think... Does Alternia have absolutely the same language families Earth has? Or does it simply mirrors them, but they all are entirely different languages? Do you think Japanese and languages with different from Latin alphabets would look similar to or nothing like their Earth equivalents? Does the magic of "learning the troll language just by looking at it" also work for humans that know other languages that potentially might have troll versions of themselves?

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there's also Remele from hiveswap and her entire character is kinda just... French but I'm not sure how right it'd be to bring her up too since she's not a part of the initial universe someone please infodump on me all your language headcanons homestuck I've been asking myself these questions since I got into this swamp and I've been here for quite a long time actually

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