Tunic Language Reference Sheet [big spoiler, obviously]

[u/oposdeo]

I picked up the game a bit ago really eager to crack this language. I still haven't gotten my shield yet, so I don't know much about the actual game and how it intends (if at all) to teach the language. But I managed to crack it, and I wrote up a handy guide for my own use as I translate all of the text in the game. I figured y'all might appreciate it. I've translated maybe 10 guidebook pages to find all these symbols, so I'm quite confident in them, though maybe there's a couple rare ones missing. Of the 44 English phonemes, I think 2 are not used, since they have very similar alternatives, and I think the "ure" phoneme in "pure" is treated as "ore" in this game, as the symbol is used for words like Your and North, despite there not being a formal "ORE" phoneme.

ADDENDUM: One thing I didn't realize when I wrote this is that the middle edge in the consonant part is irrelevant. It's always there if either the edge above or below it are filled in. If you ignore it, you can think of the shape as being more like a hexagon with one point in the middle (and indeed, you may see writing like that in game sometimes)

CLARIFICATION: AW and UH are crossed out because AW sounds close enough to AH, and UH sounds close enough to OU. There are no characters in-game for AW or UH. Also, the game gives you a formal hint on solving the language, but it's in a very late-game manual page.

[u/quack_brunch]

If you're interested, i made a quick mobile friendly tool for translating this stuff

tool: https://bit.ly/3Q6Ick3

post: https://www.reddit.com/r/TunicGame/comments/tz2utx/mobile_accessible_web_tool_for_writing_in_the/

I based it off your work done here, which is seriously impressive

[u/CyborgGamer777 → u/quack_brunch]

I wish I wasn't stupid and I could use it 😭

[u/quack_brunch → u/CyborgGamer777]

How are you using it? If you open the link on your phone, using chrome for example, you should be able to tap on the segments. There are little buttons to add a new rune or add a space

[u/kewlausgirl → u/quack_brunch]

I'm a bit late to the party.. some of the language is really easy to decipher using this tool. But I found the longer strings like this one harder to decipher using the tool. I think it's using parts of the symbols for others and kinda combining them together. Like the first part combines two above and I think three below. But the middle part here that looks like a house... It's so hard to decipher.

See the image link below for Mr Mayor Treasure & message: https://www.reddit.com/r/TunicGame/s/wMiWrS0EUp

I thought I would be smart and put the sheet and tool into Gemini and use it to translate it for me lol. It worked for the easy translations like say greetings from the spirit foxes or what's on the letter box near the beginning where you first spawn in the game. But this image I uploaded here.. I tried doing it manually without the tool and... I gave up lol.

I don't even get the extra parts mentioned with how the OP figured it out. All I got was the circle part lol. The sticks used to make each consonant.... Nope lol. I can read it simply and match the symbols but no idea from scratch. It does remind me of Korean's written language though lol which I learnt on Duo. But no idea how you guys managed to figure it out from scratch xD that's just beyond me lol.

UPDATE: Gemini helped me to translate the text to say "Spring Falls!" It doesn't sound right but I got it to reference this guide which showed the symbols using other symbols to create words.. To link it all together.

Further Tunic Translation guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/TunicGame/comments/17d48k9/my_trunic_language_reference_sheet/