Goki's Random TF Facts Discussion Thread

[GoktimusPrime]

I'm yet to meet anyone that can actually speak it though

That's because there is no real functioning Cybertronian language. Only scripts. The Cybertronian speech we hear in the live action movies are garble. Apparently when Wheelie speaks Cybertronian it's Russian played in reverse.

I wish they made a real Cybertronian language though. I'd totally learn it if they did! This is something I raised on the Don Murphy boards years ago when the first movie was still in production. I mentioned several issues about the Transformers and languages. I'm quite glad that the movie universe does clearly establish that the Transformers have their own Cybertronian languages and that they didn't learn Earth languages like English until after coming to Earth and/or having contact with humans.

Creating a fictional script and fictional language are two entirely different things. The Cybertronian scripts are a lot like Aurebesh... the alphabets exist for which there is no spoken language for it.

[5FDP]

That's because there is no real functioning Cybertronian language.

I know. Hence the smiley in my post

I wish they made a real Cybertronian language though. I'd totally learn it if they did!

+1

Below is the translation table I was referring to -

[Wheel-J]

Below is the translation table I was referring to -

After seeing this chart, I went to see the box art and backing cards of my ROTF packaging. All along I thought those were cybertronian symbols..

[5FDP]

To explain, there are numerous dialects known in the Cybertronian language. To list a few - Ancient Cybertronian, Ancient and Modern Autobot, and Quintesson which was probably the first. There are also variations of each making the possibilities almost endless.

Goki can no doubt explain this more than I can as I don't want to appear to be hijacking his thread.

[GoktimusPrime]

Quintesson script looks similar to Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs as seen in the episode "Madman's Paradise." You can read more about Cybertronian languages here.

[dsaint]

I probably should have phrased my question better - because the ultimate answer is a no - I was wondering whether there was a fully fledged Cybertronian language, both spoken and written as there is (at least my impression is that there is) Klingon (I remember reading on Gizmodo about a father who taught his child nothing but Klingon as language during its first few years of life - which is taking things a bit far). But there is an alphabet - is it consistent across continuities - just looking at the article linked to by Goktimus, it seems the alphabet has been developed in the Transformers Animated series of recent years (which I have yet to watch - one of these days).