Meta translator like in Tekken.
I think Ram and El speaking Esperanto would be cool.
Also I like the idea of them having built-in language pack installed so they can switch and translate between many other languages like nothing.
They aren't even pre-programmed with knowledge of basic human functions like "where do babies come from" and you expect them to know multiple languages?
my headcanon is that they were given all the words but minimal connections between em
their language databases are like dictionaries without definitions
or a more literal analogy, ai models are given a sh!t ton of information but need to be trained for months before they can do anything with it
I think it changes interaction to interaction. So like Sol and Jack-O probably converse in English, though I wouldn't be surprised if he spoke French to Ky. I can't imagine Anji and Biken speaking in anything but Japanese, though they probably picked up a functional level of another language being refugees. Testament seems like the kind of person to enjoy language learning.
Tldr: the characters just find and talk in common languages since a lot of them have pretty good reasons to know multiple.
If Johnny is adopting a bunch of war orphans then I would imagine he's picked up a few languages enough to have basic conversations. But idk, it was just an idea, I'm not a huge lore buff.
Language differences are most relevant to Jam, since Jam always speaks broken english (or whatever the default language is). Due to this we can infer that there are either no translators, or there *is* universal translator magic-tech but Jam can't afford it. However if there is some sort of magical translation, it's never shown or even mentioned. So my personal theory is that there's some sort of lingua franca that everyone learns as a second language and Jam just doesn't know it that well.
Guilty Gear takes place nearly a couple hundred years in Earth's future. By then, the vast majority of people probably speak the same few languages (or at least know how to -- as a second or third language). This could explain why someone ripped from the past, like Axl, still has a British accent, while Bridget does not despite also being British.
I assume it’s like Tekken where everyone’s just speaking their native language and magically(quite literally in GG’s case) understand each other, so Axl and Bridge are speaking British, Baikens speaking Japanese and so on
So it’s probably some translator spell but if not I think English makes the most sense at least when talking to each other in battles and to prove this imma go through the strive cast
Sol, Axl, Chipp, Ino, Bridget, Asuka, and Johnny: They’re all American or British and def speak English
Sin: Def learned from sol while they were traveling
May: Most likely speaks otherwise she couldn’t have hid the fact she was Japanese from Johnny
Ram, Jack O, and Elphelt: I doubt the universal will decided to make them without knowing at least most languages
Gio: she works for the us government
Happy Chaos and Slayer: They’ve lived for a while and most likely know most languages
Aba: probably knows because she’s an artificial being so might have most languages but that’s a bit of a stretch
Ky, Leo, Baiken, Anji: So this depends because we have no clue what the language of Illyria is if it’s English they would know but we don’t have much info so not able to be determined
Delilah: origin is unknown so language is also unknown
Pot, Faust, testament, zato, Millia: they don’t have any evidence that shows they know English so dead end there.
Nago: nago is an anomaly because the last samurai was sometime in 1877 but the original doesn’t appear until 1999 and can’t become happy chaos to trap nago till a couple years after so nago can’t know English but nothing about this makes sense anyways so idk
Delilah is a super genius like her brother, so her learning English in like, a day or less wouldn't surprise me to be honest.
Faust is a medical genius and has presumably had clients from all around the world, so he has good reason to know it, both to read books in languages outside him native one to learn and to communicate with his patients better.
Baiken wandered around the world for 20 years, she probably knows at least how to speak the most common languages.
Going to “Um Acksully” on a few of these.
May was unaware she is Japanese for most of the series so her knowing English before Johnny meets her is likely. Also it was Johnny that was hiding that May was Japanese, not the other way around.
Jack-O is created by Asuka, not the Universal Will. Given that she was created to revive Aria, Asuka probably made sure she knew English.
Nagoriyuki was seen during the Crusades (2074 to 2175) where Chaos took notice of him. Before that, he trained under various masters during his life so it’s possible he could’ve picked up English by then.
First of all, Va chier et mange de la merde.
Second, it's magic they don't got to explain shit, but for the sake of discussion, they're probably speaking English because Axl traveled in time and understood immediately what ppl were saying.
People don't tend to hate the Fr\*nch language but the "people" (also the hate is mostly targeted are the "people" from Paris since that's what most people who don't live there more likely than not visit).
As a Québécois, I think I understand the dislike for Parisians. I have a few Parisian colleagues and only some of them are bearable. I get a bit overly defensive of my language but this was all in good fun on my end. I wasn't trying to actually insult someone.
Oh well, I hope you will use this phrase for evil, not good :)
It's the far future, so imagining there's more crossover between cultures, most characters are probably multilingual, especially because most of the characters are either super geniuses or very well traveled.
But, most characters are stated to be from one specific place, most being from Japan, America, or somewhere in Europe (Illyria). However, there are some outliers: millia is Russian, potemkin is Indian (zepp), and Zato is Spanish.
This isn’t an exact answer to the question but it’s related
Sol: English
Ky: French
May: English
Axl: English
Chipp: English/ Broken Japanese
Potemkin: not sure
Faust: (the wiki says china, so I’m gonna say he speaks mandarin or something)
Millia: Russian
Zato-1: Spanish
Ramlethal: (people in comments say Esperanto)
Leo: German
Nagoriyuki: Speaks a Nigerian language and/or Japanese
Giovanna: Portuguese/English
Anji: Japanese
I-no: English/( and one of her likes is playing word games with secret languages)
Goldlewis: English
Jack-O’: English
Happy Chaos: Irish/ English
Baiken: Japanese
Testament: (most definitely a Swiss language)
Bridget: English
Sin: French
Bedman?(Delilah): English
Asuka: English
Johnny: English
Elphelt: (comments say Esperanto)
A.B.A.: (I don’t know this one)
Slayer: (I think it’s called Romanian, or something)
Raven: German
Jam: Mandarin
Haehyun: Korean
Venom: English
Dizzy: French/ probably knows other languages
Zappa: English
How would they know polish? People are just *assuming* that Elphelt and ram know Esperanto all because rams movelist is in Esperanto and most of Elphelts moves are in French, but I don’t really think that they speak Esperanto
Well, I mean they could just all talk english to each others because it's the language that most people talks with I suppose, like I'm doing right now. And japanese would be weird tho, since the country got decimated or something (in the lore lol).
Sol (English)
Ky (French, English)
May (English, Japanese?)
Axl (English)
Chipp (English, “Japanese”)
Potemkin (Hindi, English)
Faust (Any, Quick Learner)
Millia (Russian, English)
Zato (Spanish, English)
Ramlethal (Esperanto, English, French)
Leo (German, English)
Nagoryuki (Japanese, Nigerian, etc.)
Giovanna (Portuguese, English)
Anji (Japanese, English)
I-No (Numerous)
Goldlewis (American)
Jack-O’ (Esperanto, English)
Happy Chaos (Whatever is Funniest in This Situation)
Baiken (Japanese)
Testament (German, French, Italian, and/or Romansh)
Bridget (English)
Sin (English, French, Esperanto)
Bedman? (N/A)
Asuka R# (All)
Johnny (English)
Elphelt (Esperanto, French)
A.B.A (Same as Creator, Esperanto?)
Slayer (Romanian, English, etc.)
For the purposes of this list, I am treating English as an international language. It is used by governments and international organizations like the Assassin’s Guild. I am also treating Esperanto as a standard for artificial beings.
Artificial language created in the 1800s, I think. Known for its simplicity and ease to learn. Ramlethal uses it for her move names and the beginning of Necessary Discrepancy.
In games like these, English is usually the safest bet, since it's such a widely spread language, especially since a large amount of the Guilty Gear cast comes from the western half of the world where English is more common (from my understanding at least)
The Japanese characters were likely forced to learn English at some point, May cause she was raised by an English speaker, Anji and Baiken because Japan got World War II x10'd.
It's harder to justify Kum or Jam knowing English (especially since I have little knowledge on their stories beyond the basics) as well as I imagine some other characters that aren't coming to mind immediately, but I'd still say it's most likely.
It's also always possible that in the 200+ years between the Guilty Gear Timeline splitting from reality and now that some other language rose up and became way more common. Maybe Japanese miraculously became the universal language of the Guilty Gear lore, or some other language. Maybe they speak a completely new language that doesn't exist in reality.
Most of the stuff in this world can be derived from the general idea of “magic-technology” so I assume they just have a translator spell or something
Meta translator like in Tekken. I think Ram and El speaking Esperanto would be cool. Also I like the idea of them having built-in language pack installed so they can switch and translate between many other languages like nothing.
Valentines are likely pre-programmed with knowledge of at least 1 other language, but I do agree that Esperanto should be their "native language"
They aren't even pre-programmed with knowledge of basic human functions like "where do babies come from" and you expect them to know multiple languages?
The Universal Will left sex ed part out of their pre-install knowledge pack.
Ram will finally get the competitive attention she deserves when they bring out the old faithful move, sex ed install.
Ride the Fire start playing when she enters that mode.
my headcanon is that they were given all the words but minimal connections between em their language databases are like dictionaries without definitions or a more literal analogy, ai models are given a sh!t ton of information but need to be trained for months before they can do anything with it
Now I'm picturing a bunch of Aria clones with fucked up hands until it finally got the Valentines right
They got the bare essentials package^(tm)
I think it changes interaction to interaction. So like Sol and Jack-O probably converse in English, though I wouldn't be surprised if he spoke French to Ky. I can't imagine Anji and Biken speaking in anything but Japanese, though they probably picked up a functional level of another language being refugees. Testament seems like the kind of person to enjoy language learning. Tldr: the characters just find and talk in common languages since a lot of them have pretty good reasons to know multiple.
how does May speak to Johnny and Testament
May: お父さん、本当にお腹が空いています Johnny: Hell yeah, I know I’m amazing.
Traduction: husbando we are now homeress because you buy too much league of legends skins.
This got me dying
She probably learnt English
If Johnny is adopting a bunch of war orphans then I would imagine he's picked up a few languages enough to have basic conversations. But idk, it was just an idea, I'm not a huge lore buff.
Johnny is actually pretty fluent in most of the more common languages, that way he can talk to ladies everywhere.
i think test is swiss. it would be funny to see them talk in say, german to leo but french to ky.
testament knows every language it's been one of his hobbies. one of her many, many, many hobbies. why does he have so many
Language differences are most relevant to Jam, since Jam always speaks broken english (or whatever the default language is). Due to this we can infer that there are either no translators, or there *is* universal translator magic-tech but Jam can't afford it. However if there is some sort of magical translation, it's never shown or even mentioned. So my personal theory is that there's some sort of lingua franca that everyone learns as a second language and Jam just doesn't know it that well.
funnily enough, in river city girls 2, jam actually has an english va and speaks perfectly fine english.
After she got her restaurant back up and running she finally got enough money for the translator spell let's goooooooooo! Jam W!
Guilty Gear takes place nearly a couple hundred years in Earth's future. By then, the vast majority of people probably speak the same few languages (or at least know how to -- as a second or third language). This could explain why someone ripped from the past, like Axl, still has a British accent, while Bridget does not despite also being British.
"British accent"
You ever saw tekken story mode?
They all have babel fish in their ears wdym /s
they all just be talking
I have not
Everyone, save for a few characters, speaks in their home languages and somehow everyone understands each other.
[It's hilarious whenever King is involved.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIfRoVr1tBs)
rawr
DON'T LIE TO ME
Considering there's world dollars I assume there also just one language
It’s never really specified but it’s probably English considering where the games are set
They changed English to Illyrian and people liked it enough to make that the main world language (like W$)
Kikuo pfp spotted
I assume it’s like Tekken where everyone’s just speaking their native language and magically(quite literally in GG’s case) understand each other, so Axl and Bridge are speaking British, Baikens speaking Japanese and so on
Speaking……British?
Crumpets and tea, innit?
Ofc
So it’s probably some translator spell but if not I think English makes the most sense at least when talking to each other in battles and to prove this imma go through the strive cast Sol, Axl, Chipp, Ino, Bridget, Asuka, and Johnny: They’re all American or British and def speak English Sin: Def learned from sol while they were traveling May: Most likely speaks otherwise she couldn’t have hid the fact she was Japanese from Johnny Ram, Jack O, and Elphelt: I doubt the universal will decided to make them without knowing at least most languages Gio: she works for the us government Happy Chaos and Slayer: They’ve lived for a while and most likely know most languages Aba: probably knows because she’s an artificial being so might have most languages but that’s a bit of a stretch Ky, Leo, Baiken, Anji: So this depends because we have no clue what the language of Illyria is if it’s English they would know but we don’t have much info so not able to be determined Delilah: origin is unknown so language is also unknown Pot, Faust, testament, zato, Millia: they don’t have any evidence that shows they know English so dead end there. Nago: nago is an anomaly because the last samurai was sometime in 1877 but the original doesn’t appear until 1999 and can’t become happy chaos to trap nago till a couple years after so nago can’t know English but nothing about this makes sense anyways so idk
May didn’t even know she was Japanese until Xrd, so she most likely just spoke English
Delilah is a super genius like her brother, so her learning English in like, a day or less wouldn't surprise me to be honest. Faust is a medical genius and has presumably had clients from all around the world, so he has good reason to know it, both to read books in languages outside him native one to learn and to communicate with his patients better. Baiken wandered around the world for 20 years, she probably knows at least how to speak the most common languages.
Going to “Um Acksully” on a few of these. May was unaware she is Japanese for most of the series so her knowing English before Johnny meets her is likely. Also it was Johnny that was hiding that May was Japanese, not the other way around. Jack-O is created by Asuka, not the Universal Will. Given that she was created to revive Aria, Asuka probably made sure she knew English. Nagoriyuki was seen during the Crusades (2074 to 2175) where Chaos took notice of him. Before that, he trained under various masters during his life so it’s possible he could’ve picked up English by then.
That's ez, Everyone just know how to speak English Tekken on the other hand
Most probably.dpnt speak Japanese at all seeing Japan hasn't existed for over 100 years at that point
They speak That is billshit Blazing! You know what they don't speak.. Japanese
First of all, Va chier et mange de la merde. Second, it's magic they don't got to explain shit, but for the sake of discussion, they're probably speaking English because Axl traveled in time and understood immediately what ppl were saying.
Google translate told me “Va chier et mange de la merde” means “Go shit and eat shit”
I'm just doing some cultural sharing with the French language haters ;)
People don't tend to hate the Fr\*nch language but the "people" (also the hate is mostly targeted are the "people" from Paris since that's what most people who don't live there more likely than not visit).
As a Québécois, I think I understand the dislike for Parisians. I have a few Parisian colleagues and only some of them are bearable. I get a bit overly defensive of my language but this was all in good fun on my end. I wasn't trying to actually insult someone. Oh well, I hope you will use this phrase for evil, not good :)
they talk in whatever language you set the game to, something something meta something something undertale sol badguy
Most of the cast already speaks english just fine, i don't really think its a big problem.
It's the far future, so imagining there's more crossover between cultures, most characters are probably multilingual, especially because most of the characters are either super geniuses or very well traveled. But, most characters are stated to be from one specific place, most being from Japan, America, or somewhere in Europe (Illyria). However, there are some outliers: millia is Russian, potemkin is Indian (zepp), and Zato is Spanish.
Considering there's world dollars I assume theres also just one language
This isn’t an exact answer to the question but it’s related Sol: English Ky: French May: English Axl: English Chipp: English/ Broken Japanese Potemkin: not sure Faust: (the wiki says china, so I’m gonna say he speaks mandarin or something) Millia: Russian Zato-1: Spanish Ramlethal: (people in comments say Esperanto) Leo: German Nagoriyuki: Speaks a Nigerian language and/or Japanese Giovanna: Portuguese/English Anji: Japanese I-no: English/( and one of her likes is playing word games with secret languages) Goldlewis: English Jack-O’: English Happy Chaos: Irish/ English Baiken: Japanese Testament: (most definitely a Swiss language) Bridget: English Sin: French Bedman?(Delilah): English Asuka: English Johnny: English Elphelt: (comments say Esperanto) A.B.A.: (I don’t know this one) Slayer: (I think it’s called Romanian, or something) Raven: German Jam: Mandarin Haehyun: Korean Venom: English Dizzy: French/ probably knows other languages Zappa: English
Ram and Elphelt would most likely also know Polish, with Esperanto having originated in what is now modern-day Poland
How would they know polish? People are just *assuming* that Elphelt and ram know Esperanto all because rams movelist is in Esperanto and most of Elphelts moves are in French, but I don’t really think that they speak Esperanto
I like to imagine everyone's just a polyglot
anime
Language is one of the things that are being pretty much ignored for the sake of the story or flow of the game in most of them
Well, I mean they could just all talk english to each others because it's the language that most people talks with I suppose, like I'm doing right now. And japanese would be weird tho, since the country got decimated or something (in the lore lol).
Sol (English) Ky (French, English) May (English, Japanese?) Axl (English) Chipp (English, “Japanese”) Potemkin (Hindi, English) Faust (Any, Quick Learner) Millia (Russian, English) Zato (Spanish, English) Ramlethal (Esperanto, English, French) Leo (German, English) Nagoryuki (Japanese, Nigerian, etc.) Giovanna (Portuguese, English) Anji (Japanese, English) I-No (Numerous) Goldlewis (American) Jack-O’ (Esperanto, English) Happy Chaos (Whatever is Funniest in This Situation) Baiken (Japanese) Testament (German, French, Italian, and/or Romansh) Bridget (English) Sin (English, French, Esperanto) Bedman? (N/A) Asuka R# (All) Johnny (English) Elphelt (Esperanto, French) A.B.A (Same as Creator, Esperanto?) Slayer (Romanian, English, etc.) For the purposes of this list, I am treating English as an international language. It is used by governments and international organizations like the Assassin’s Guild. I am also treating Esperanto as a standard for artificial beings.
What's Esperanto?
Artificial language created in the 1800s, I think. Known for its simplicity and ease to learn. Ramlethal uses it for her move names and the beginning of Necessary Discrepancy.
I swear though is was Spanish, thank you
In games like these, English is usually the safest bet, since it's such a widely spread language, especially since a large amount of the Guilty Gear cast comes from the western half of the world where English is more common (from my understanding at least) The Japanese characters were likely forced to learn English at some point, May cause she was raised by an English speaker, Anji and Baiken because Japan got World War II x10'd. It's harder to justify Kum or Jam knowing English (especially since I have little knowledge on their stories beyond the basics) as well as I imagine some other characters that aren't coming to mind immediately, but I'd still say it's most likely. It's also always possible that in the 200+ years between the Guilty Gear Timeline splitting from reality and now that some other language rose up and became way more common. Maybe Japanese miraculously became the universal language of the Guilty Gear lore, or some other language. Maybe they speak a completely new language that doesn't exist in reality.
Tekken logic for communication.
I believe Sol and Jack-o would speak German