Languages of the Creatures

[TransitPony 238]

I was recently thinking about the preferred languages of each creature in the show based on their mythology. Here's what I came up with:
Ponies (all three, unicorn, earth and pegasi): American, Canadian and British English and Australian English as well (especially for a few of the pegasi characters in the show, namely Scootaloo's father and one of the members of the Washouts). 
Griffons: Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic script, Farsi 
Dragons: Multiple languages, especially that of East Asia (Mandarin and Cantonese, Korean/Hangul, Japanese
Kirin: All scripts of the Chinese language, Korean/Hangul and all scripts of the Japanese language 
Hippogriff: Italian, French, German, and British English
The Changelings: mainly American English

I think that Equestria's main language would be English/Ponish, with secondary languages being French, Spanish, German, Portugese, Cyrillic scrpit, Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese 

What do you guys think?

[The Kaeya Simp 13,988]

7 hours ago, TransitPony said:

I was recently thinking about the preferred languages of each creature in the show based on their mythology. Here's what I came up with:
Ponies (all three, unicorn, earth and pegasi): American, Canadian and British English and Australian English as well (especially for a few of the pegasi characters in the show, namely Scootaloo's father and one of the members of the Washouts). 
Griffons: Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic script, Farsi 
Dragons: Multiple languages, especially that of East Asia (Mandarin and Cantonese, Korean/Hangul, Japanese
Kirin: All scripts of the Chinese language, Korean/Hangul and all scripts of the Japanese language 
Hippogriff: Italian, French, German, and British English
The Changelings: mainly American English

I think that Equestria's main language would be English/Ponish, with secondary languages being French, Spanish, German, Portugese, Cyrillic scrpit, Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese 

What do you guys think?

I think that changelings would probably speak Irish (as Changelings are an Irish mythological creature)
Ponies mainly english
Crystal ponies I want to say Russian (idk why, just feels right)
the rest I can't really think of anything else for them

[ShadOBabe 18,997]

@TransitPony

A couple points...

The dragons of MLP are exclusively the winged kind found in Europe. Why did you pick Asian languages as their primary languages?

Real world folklore has Changelings and their lore originate in Europe. So American English is an odd pick.

Speaking English doesn't make sense as a default for ponies in general, since they apparently live everywhere. Large portions have apparently lived in MLP versions of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Ancient China, and there are likely others.

Also...

Ahuizotls: Nahuatl, aka Aztec (his pony tribe likely speaks it too)

Buffalo: Any of the Plains Native American languages

 

[SharpWit 2,611]

While I enjoy each species mythology from our own world, I like to go more off of the geographic and cultural cues from within the show.

Equestria was originally based off of North America and given the parrarells of their own leading positions in our respective worlds, there's a good chance they speak an equivalent to English.

In addition to that we have the Equestrian settlement of Trottingham in the "Grittish" Isles . Could have sworn those were called something else last I checked. Anyways, that adds to their own equivalent to Europe but with Griffin dominance. Given the state of things, they probably aren't so reminiscent of the Roman Empire, but the Latin languages likely prevail with a Frankish/French sect at the top.

I like to think of Latin as being the leading/universal language of the "old world" for MLP, and being the explanation for why there haven't been communication issues between species that we've seen.

Edited November 26, 2020 by SharpWit

[TransitPony 238]

17 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

@TransitPony

A couple points...

The dragons of MLP are exclusively the winged kind found in Europe. Why did you pick Asian languages as their primary languages?

Real world folklore has Changelings and their lore originate in Europe. So American English is an odd pick.

Speaking English doesn't make sense as a default for ponies in general, since they apparently live everywhere. Large portions have apparently lived in MLP versions of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Ancient China, and there are likely others.

I picked the Asian languages for the dragons because in the Friends Forever comic, Princess Luna and Spike go to Fillydelphia and they head into Dragon Town, and the entrance to the neighborhood has a Chinese gate, plus dragons are more welcomed as positive spirits in the East in terms of mythology and culture, where in the West/Europe they were perceived as evil. 

As for the changelings, I picked American English as in the comic, Fiendship is Magic, Queen Chrysalis tells Twilight Sparkle her the backstory of how she came into existence, and there was a few panels that show Star Swirl the Bearded unknowingly creating her and the changelings. Also, in the main series’ later seasons, the changelings are in the post-Chrysalis phase and are trying to find their place in the world culturally as a whole (i.e. the episode that introduced Pharynx and Thorax was showing Glimmer around about what he was doing with the tribe since Chrysalis’ second defeat). 

The ponies have a lot of rich history in Equestria. I was more focused on the heavily populated parts of the country, which is why I chose English for the ponies. It’s possible of there being ponies who do speak multiple languages, especially of the versions of many of the world’s most important ancient societies the series mentioned.  

[ShadOBabe 18,997]

@TransitPony Ahhhh, the comics. Gotcha. I completely disregard the comics, so that explains it.

[Glimmy 29]

After seeing Spice up your life and the scheme of the restaurant I guess both saffron masala and coriander cumin belonged to India or somewhere near so why not add Hindi in there

Edited November 27, 2020 by Starlight_shimmer123

[TransitPony 238]

On 11/27/2020 at 4:14 AM, Starlight_shimmer123 said:

After seeing Spice up your life and the scheme of the restaurant I guess both saffron masala and coriander cumin belonged to India or somewhere near so why not add Hindi in there

That can be included too.