So do the ponies speak a language that sounds incredibly similar

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>>28944842
It's completely totally and utterly inconsistent.

>>28944842
they speak gaynese LOL

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Rarely (only in S1), it's just plain English.

>>28944842
We can't tell , the writers are too lazy to pay attention to those details

>>28944842
I was just thinking about this today. If you count Equestria Girls as canon
>stopped reading there
Ahem, *if* you count Equestria Girls as canon, then it might be safe to assume that the ponies don't speak in any language that couldn't be replicated by a human throat—in other words, they don't speak through whinnies and neighs that have been translated into English. I say this because Twilight didn't freak out about any change in her voice or language when she went through the mirror, and she perfectly understood EqGmanoids. They must speak the same language in both worlds.

That's not to say they're speaking in a language we'd understand that's been translated, but they at least speak in a human-type language.

>>28944908
If EG is the case, then they speak a language that's close enough to English, but still a bit different (ie everyp0ny vs everybody). I say this because in one of the EQG books, I think it was Applejack who referred to English as her favorite class in school. So EQG takes place on a different planet, in a strange country that happens to speak a dialect of English that's identical to ours

>>28944842
Some letters are English >>28944882
Some letters are some jibbersh >>28944842
Some letters are English mirrored >Spike the dragon lord card
Some letters are some jibbersh mirrored >>28944842
Some letters are mixed both >Foal Free Press, Daring Do adventure leaflet or something

They don't care and it will be hard to make a analyze these and make it a canon.

EQG? don't remember

>>28944944
Do you think in foreign printings of such a book they would keep it as "English class" or change it to the printed language? Obviously Equestria Girls takes place in a Western-inspired suburbia, but could only America or Canada lay claim to it?

If we had a consistant written language in the show we could have a sort of cipher, and if it were written in our alphabet like >>28944865 we would be able to make posts in it
That would be pretty neat or annoying, your call

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>>28944962
I love eating NRAP, don't you?

>>28944842
Is that Armenian? My grandparents used to have books with covers like that all over the place.

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>>28945306
Did they survive that nonexistent genocide that most assuredly did not happen?

>>28944908
That's an interesting point. It's possible that in EG they speak the same language as the ponies in the show, and it makes sense considering how the characters are named too and I think the writing is the same, no?

>>28944944
Well, I don't know how "canon" the EqG books are. However the show has had direct references to real life languages. Like French.

>>28944842

>>28944842
Most of them speak common equestrian, sometimes they speak in fancy or other gibberish (zebrican?)
But the show is translated because you know, for kids

>>28944882
>subtitles

Maybe a hybrid, or dialects?

>>28944842

Writings from the show

First episode= pictogram

Sister social hooves= Cyrillic or Russian alphabet

28 pranks later=Arabic

>>28945350
fuck off turkroach

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The top of this one resembles Cyrillic.

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>>28945350
somebody should make an adaption of this

>>28950236
you know i have never auctualy seen a japanese war crimes denial thread

i should go keep an eye on /jp/ for one

Bump զարկել 磕碰 Удap (((نتوء (((מַכָּה Stoßen ನೂಕು Kolahtaa

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>>28945350
Anything else you'd like to say?

>>28944962
It could be a.magic based writing system that auto translates but that idea wouldn't cross over to eqg

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>>28944865
>>28949240
Ruski poni is kanon, oтличнo.

>>28950247
Try /int/, well the nips there won't deny their country's war crimes, but they'll try to change the subject to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and shift blame to Americans. Then again, all Japanese posters on that board are weaboos with proxies, American or British English teachers living in Japan, or American soldiers stationed there

>>28952512
No, the producers literally just don't care enough to construct a consistent language. There is no in-universe justification, it's an incoherent part of the story.

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>>28949240
It's literally Greek

>>28949240
The two star dragon ball!

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Gibberish

>>28955197
Foal free press is English but with some letters and words mirrored

>>28952546
Бopщ is fucking disgusting. No sane person would ever even consider touching beetroot soup.

>>28944842
I like to think they have multiple written languages. At least three.
One is for printing. (the one that looks kinda like English)
Another that's the Equestrian equivalent to writing in cursive,(Gibberish one)
And a third that is probably short hand/hieroglyphic style (the one with the unicorn heads in it)

Learning to read in Equestria must suck

>>28955669
I'm going with that. The printing one is optimized for typing. The squiggle one is optimized for mouth/magic, and this one has minor variations that let the scribe leverage his or her dexterity. The hieroglyphics are for ancient or showy things.

The pure english one is just a translation so we get what's going on.

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>>28956860
The hieroglyphic font might just be their equivalent of Old English

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>>28955197
The human written language is rather inconsistent

>>28957786

one of those just looks like English with some of the letters turned around

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>>28955197
>newspaper
O Y V E Y
Y V E Y O
V E Y O Y
E Y O Y V
Y V E Y O

>>28944842
They probably just update the language every year for shits and giggles or something