I finally managed to translate the first sentence of the book. It was nostalgic, because I ended up remembering the time when I started to be interested and learn about English through games from my childhood. Thank you 😁
The plan is that if enough people care about it, I'll take the time to make another video writing some words and phrases to teach the practical application of writing in Trunic. =3c
thanks. This helped me make sense of my old tunic notes that were poorly organized. Ctrl + F helped me find the word I was looking for that contained one of the more rare runes. Unrelated note: I have a theory that the language is called Tunic, but the game is called Secret Legend.
I swear I swiped past this video multiple times and finally clicked on it after others were not help full. This is the most helpful furry and I dont know how.
Thank you for making this. You are the only one i saw that did not explain it in a bland game reviewer style. You made the language feal easy to learn and you sound natural. Thank you.
Everyone I talk to about it goes with the intellectual phonetics stuff with the weird letters like ae for aether. I wanted to do this for the average person, as an average person, using mental tricks an average person could follow and use to memorize it.
One more thing: J and CH are voiced and voiceless consonants of the same type, which is why their runes are inverted. The “weird” one, as you call it, CH (or TCH), is the voiceless consonant. :)
Great video! If I might, when you speak of the hard T and the hard D, that’s actually the participation or not of your vocal chords Soft - no vocal chords, so voiceless - as in Slow Hard - vocal cords, so voiced - as in viSion. The vocal cord makes the sound sort of like a buzzing bee and we have that difference in language (many languages actually) and there are several pairs. The following list clarifies this a lot! The consonants in between // are phonetic symbols. Hope it helps anyone! • /p/ (voiceless) and /b/ (voiced): pat vs bat • /t/ (voiceless) and /d/ (voiced): tap vs dap • /k/ (voiceless) and /g/ (voiced): cap vs gap • /f/ (voiceless) and /v/ (voiced): fan vs van • /s/ (voiceless) and /z/ (voiced): sip vs zip • /ʃ/ (voiceless, as in “show”) and /ʒ/ (voiced, as in “vision”) • /tʃ/ (voiceless, as in “chop”) and /dʒ/ (voiced, as in “jump”)
Very edutaining video, thank you so much :D At first, I wanted a translation of the instruction booklet, but the moment I figured out the sound "Uh", I was determined to learn the language. I'm at a part of the game where I can interact with many NPCs, so I felt like being able to understand them would make a big difference. Thank you again for this video
Thanks for doing this! My grade school English class lessons on the phonemic alphabet is really coming in handy here, hehe~ I pulled up a phonemic chart and was crossing off the letters one by one as I was following along with your video. That's when I noticed that there's one that was skipped. There's a phonemic letter for the "aw" sound in words like "not" or "because", as well as a dedicated phonemic letter for the "aw" in "saw" or "law". Those seem so close in pronunciation that I figured they must be used interchangeably in Trunic.
Nice! Though you might have missed it, that sounds is in there. I believe it was the second letter I did, and used the word "awesome" to example it? Awesome and Saw use the same rune.
@@HappyWulf Ahhhh, gotcha. I did go back and forth in this video several times while taking notes, so it's likely I missed something or got confused. Wasn't saying you did anything wrong here, this has actually been a super helpful video! I've already began translating runes from the game's manual, which is an excellent start!
@@foxyloonjust keep in mind the part I actually did get wrong. The "old man", as I mentioned in the description, is wrong. It's used in the game in "Cycle". The oo in "Book".
I left the fandom some...nearing 5 years ago and here I am, once more, learning something new from a fur. I can't seem to shake you guys lol but I'll be damned if I couldn't find a better break down of how to understand a made up language. Damn good job helping me understand the lore of Tunic better. Here's hoping it carries over into a sequel or spiritual successor
You're welcome! I also hope you picked up on the one little mistake I made as well, that I mentioned in the description. I've been debating rerecording the whole thing because TH-cam won't let me splice in a quick fix.
I dont know what is Trunic. I don't know why my teacher is a furry. I don't know why I feel more and more interested on those runes and all the mistery is grinding around them. I try to understand what is happening. I can't. I get frustrated. I hope my other classmates can follow the lesson but I have to quit :c
This was monumentslly helpful! Thank you! I looked up another guide and they didnt seperete the sounds into femilies, which is critical when talking about phonemes, because you have hard and soft phonemes. Apparently teo vowels sounds are missing from Tunic's language though? At least, according to this other guide. AW (as in Paw) and UH (as in Bug), but im going to doible check. Now, what about words like Gun? Is it G.UH.-N, G-UH.N, or both? Im guessing its like a normal word that seperstes phonemes into syllables and goes left to right when possible. But what about the UH, if thats not in the lanaguage?
Aw as in PAW is the 2nd rune I talked about, and UH as in GUN or Th-UH (the) is the 4th; G-uh N. Remember Vowels take up the outside of the rune and the consonants take up the inner. So, G-Uh is a single combined rune, and N is it's own - but they are all touching each other going left to right to form a full word. The horizontal line is a formal aid to help keep the flow of words, but is not necessary and is often excluded in informal writing.
@@HappyWulf Great to know, thanks! I'm going to look into this myself soon, but just checking, are you using TH-UH because that's what You personally say in real life, or because the game's dialogue comes with an accent? I say TH-E. I think there was a similar example where you said "UN apple" vs "AN apple", but I say "AN apple."
@@FurryEskimo It's based entirely on how you say it. It accounts for accents this way. This allows for some words to be written in multiple ways, it's fine as long as it's readable. Th-UH and Th-EE are both used in the manual. For example, they are right next to each other in Page 40 on #1. "Th-UH sound of chanting in Th-EE (air/heir)?"
@@HappyWulf Quick question, but what symbols/phoneme would you use to represent the R sound in the word Cross? I was looking for it under the R vowels, but I'm thinking, maybe it's a consonant, so it's K-(R-O)-S?
I finally managed to translate the first sentence of the book. It was nostalgic, because I ended up remembering the time when I started to be interested and learn about English through games from my childhood.
Thank you 😁
It's nice that you made a whole video teaching people how to read and write the language.
The plan is that if enough people care about it, I'll take the time to make another video writing some words and phrases to teach the practical application of writing in Trunic. =3c
@@HappyWulfWould definitely watch that video.
thanks. This helped me make sense of my old tunic notes that were poorly organized. Ctrl + F helped me find the word I was looking for that contained one of the more rare runes.
Unrelated note: I have a theory that the language is called Tunic, but the game is called Secret Legend.
The game has always been called Secret Legend. It was changed to Tunic a year or two before release. There's *other* reasons why it's called Tunic.
I swear I swiped past this video multiple times and finally clicked on it after others were not help full. This is the most helpful furry and I dont know how.
I think I will remember "ar" by thinking of a pirate getting his ear pierced because the side has a hole in it.
Thank you for making this. You are the only one i saw that did not explain it in a bland game reviewer style. You made the language feal easy to learn and you sound natural. Thank you.
Everyone I talk to about it goes with the intellectual phonetics stuff with the weird letters like ae for aether.
I wanted to do this for the average person, as an average person, using mental tricks an average person could follow and use to memorize it.
ah yes, gettinglanguage lessons by a furry fox creature. The best
That’s how it is now
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!
For the phoneme in the word “vision,” I would spell it as “zh,” as it is voiced instead of the voiceless sh.
Yay! You're welcome! I also made a mistake, that I edited into the Description of the video. The 'ol is actually an ugh, like Look, Book.
One more thing: J and CH are voiced and voiceless consonants of the same type, which is why their runes are inverted. The “weird” one, as you call it, CH (or TCH), is the voiceless consonant. :)
Great video! If I might, when you speak of the hard T and the hard D, that’s actually the participation or not of your vocal chords
Soft - no vocal chords, so voiceless - as in Slow
Hard - vocal cords, so voiced - as in viSion.
The vocal cord makes the sound sort of like a buzzing bee and we have that difference in language (many languages actually) and there are several pairs.
The following list clarifies this a lot! The consonants in between // are phonetic symbols. Hope it helps anyone!
• /p/ (voiceless) and /b/ (voiced): pat vs bat
• /t/ (voiceless) and /d/ (voiced): tap vs dap
• /k/ (voiceless) and /g/ (voiced): cap vs gap
• /f/ (voiceless) and /v/ (voiced): fan vs van
• /s/ (voiceless) and /z/ (voiced): sip vs zip
• /ʃ/ (voiceless, as in “show”) and /ʒ/ (voiced, as in “vision”)
• /tʃ/ (voiceless, as in “chop”) and /dʒ/ (voiced, as in “jump”)
Very edutaining video, thank you so much :D
At first, I wanted a translation of the instruction booklet, but the moment I figured out the sound "Uh", I was determined to learn the language. I'm at a part of the game where I can interact with many NPCs, so I felt like being able to understand them would make a big difference. Thank you again for this video
Make sure you catch my mistake I made and mentioned in the video Description! Otherwise, I'm glad! =3c
Ah thanks for pointing it out! I was wondering what òl was supposed to be XD
Awesome video. Makes tunic very accessible. And the tunic costume is the icing of the cake.
Thanks for doing this! My grade school English class lessons on the phonemic alphabet is really coming in handy here, hehe~ I pulled up a phonemic chart and was crossing off the letters one by one as I was following along with your video. That's when I noticed that there's one that was skipped. There's a phonemic letter for the "aw" sound in words like "not" or "because", as well as a dedicated phonemic letter for the "aw" in "saw" or "law". Those seem so close in pronunciation that I figured they must be used interchangeably in Trunic.
Nice! Though you might have missed it, that sounds is in there. I believe it was the second letter I did, and used the word "awesome" to example it? Awesome and Saw use the same rune.
@@HappyWulf Ahhhh, gotcha. I did go back and forth in this video several times while taking notes, so it's likely I missed something or got confused. Wasn't saying you did anything wrong here, this has actually been a super helpful video!
I've already began translating runes from the game's manual, which is an excellent start!
@@foxyloonjust keep in mind the part I actually did get wrong. The "old man", as I mentioned in the description, is wrong. It's used in the game in "Cycle". The oo in "Book".
@@HappyWulf Gotcha, thanks for the head's up! I'll double check my notes in the morning with a fresh mind, hehe~
A fox teaching trunic. This is amazing!
this video is super cool! I'm probably not going to learn it any time soon due to being busy, but I really hope I get to learning this eventually!
I was looking for a simple explanation for learning trunic. Thank you, really well done
I left the fandom some...nearing 5 years ago and here I am, once more, learning something new from a fur. I can't seem to shake you guys lol but I'll be damned if I couldn't find a better break down of how to understand a made up language. Damn good job helping me understand the lore of Tunic better. Here's hoping it carries over into a sequel or spiritual successor
Thank you! ❤✨
I took notes😅 📝The groupings you used I found very helpful. I can also appreciate the brevity and the moments of charm. 👍✨
Super duper helpful.
Thank you so much for this. I tried learning via the chart made by oposdeo, but showing some mnemonics for them is very helpful. Thank you!
You're welcome! I also hope you picked up on the one little mistake I made as well, that I mentioned in the description. I've been debating rerecording the whole thing because TH-cam won't let me splice in a quick fix.
I appreciate what your doing but when i said i want to learn a magic runic language from a talking fox this is ⁰% of what i had in mind.
I dont know what is Trunic. I don't know why my teacher is a furry. I don't know why I feel more and more interested on those runes and all the mistery is grinding around them. I try to understand what is happening. I can't. I get frustrated. I hope my other classmates can follow the lesson but I have to quit :c
Not Ay banana, UH banana.
14:52 is “ir” also used for er?
And is “air” also used for b”ear”?
it's all based on sounds, so 'air' is used for Bear, Heir, Air, There, Pear, etc... 'ir' as in Bird can also be used in Rang'er', yes.
This very useful!
you are a pretty good teacher!
The tunic rune (or rather, trunic) at the beginning of the video says: Ong 😂
This was monumentslly helpful! Thank you!
I looked up another guide and they didnt seperete the sounds into femilies, which is critical when talking about phonemes, because you have hard and soft phonemes.
Apparently teo vowels sounds are missing from Tunic's language though? At least, according to this other guide. AW (as in Paw) and UH (as in Bug), but im going to doible check.
Now, what about words like Gun? Is it G.UH.-N, G-UH.N, or both? Im guessing its like a normal word that seperstes phonemes into syllables and goes left to right when possible. But what about the UH, if thats not in the lanaguage?
Aw as in PAW is the 2nd rune I talked about, and UH as in GUN or Th-UH (the) is the 4th; G-uh N. Remember Vowels take up the outside of the rune and the consonants take up the inner. So, G-Uh is a single combined rune, and N is it's own - but they are all touching each other going left to right to form a full word. The horizontal line is a formal aid to help keep the flow of words, but is not necessary and is often excluded in informal writing.
@@HappyWulf Great to know, thanks! I'm going to look into this myself soon, but just checking, are you using TH-UH because that's what You personally say in real life, or because the game's dialogue comes with an accent? I say TH-E.
I think there was a similar example where you said "UN apple" vs "AN apple", but I say "AN apple."
@@FurryEskimo It's based entirely on how you say it. It accounts for accents this way. This allows for some words to be written in multiple ways, it's fine as long as it's readable. Th-UH and Th-EE are both used in the manual. For example, they are right next to each other in Page 40 on #1. "Th-UH sound of chanting in Th-EE (air/heir)?"
@@HappyWulf Great to know, but also So annoying! lol
@@HappyWulf Quick question, but what symbols/phoneme would you use to represent the R sound in the word Cross?
I was looking for it under the R vowels, but I'm thinking, maybe it's a consonant, so it's K-(R-O)-S?
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Huh, I know the language now. Thank you! 😊👍
This really helped. Thanks alot
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FawKS 🦊
F-aw K S, yes.
All we need is to speak it
Did anybody ever figure out what to do with the spoken trunic? How about that last image?
Thxx a lot ❤❤
Thanks happy
Is this thing have a name ?
BUHnana
Are you chewing something? It sounds like it haha
C Q X ??
Sorry but why the dev creating an alphabet where this not enjoyable when you play a game ?