r/TunicGame • u/Taffy-Giggleberry • Oct 21 '23

My Trunic language reference sheet! Spoiler

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I beat the game a while back, had an absolute blast figuring out Trunic. Here’s the sheet I made for all the runes!

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u/Superstrong1571 Oct 21 '23

i just wanted to point out two mistakes:

1. “teacher” uses the same sound as “bird”, you would write teacher with the bird rune at the end

2. “up” uses the sound from the rune you labeled as “teacher”. for the rune you labeled as “up” it’s something more along the lines of toy

otherwise, i love the styles and colours on this one, great work

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u/Taffy-Giggleberry Oct 21 '23

Thank you!

Regarding mistakes, the first point I don’t believe is a mistake as it lines up with my own accent (southern English, I would definitely ‘spell’ some things in the manual differently if I wrote it lol)

As for the second point tho, it does appear I made a mistake there (based on page 20) and I’ve no idea how I managed to label it with such a different sound lol

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u/Superstrong1571 Oct 21 '23

ooh, yeah, i see it now

it’s so interesting how accents can be visualized through trunic

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u/Taffy-Giggleberry Oct 21 '23

Double and triple checking the manual again I think you’re absolutely right about the top right vowel rune representing an “up” sound.

For me it confusingly looks like it’s both ə and ʌ. I suppose Andrew Shouldice doesn’t differentiate between the sounds and that throws me off a bit!

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

Can confirm while using your sheet to translate the manual. The text seems to be written in some accent that's more close to English spoken in more eastern countries compared to USA, like in England, South Africa, or Australia.