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" Everything is language. I am language. I am everything."
― Doug Ramsey/Cypher (Marvel Comics)

The power to speak, understand and decipher any and all languages. Sub-power of Omni-Communication. Absolute version of Linguistics Mastery. Opposite to Alternative Communication.

Also Called[]

  • Absolute Linguistic
  • All-speak/All-Tongue
  • Ciphering/Deciphering
  • Enhanced Language Understanding
  • Language Interpretation/Intuition/Learning/Mimicry/Replication
  • Lingual Intuition
  • Linguistic Intelligence/Replication
  • Multilingual
  • Multilingualism
  • Omnilingual Translation
  • Universal Translation
  • Speaking in Tongues

Fiction-Specific Terms[]

  • Ears of Sand (Midnight Occult Civil Servants)

Capabilities[]

The user can genuinely flawlessly speak, write, read, understand and communicate in any and every language, including computer codes, dead languages, extinct languages, the universal language of mathematics and music, languages that have never been heard before, sign language (even lip-reading), illegible words, and backwards speech and writing with little or no training. The user may even communicate with non-human animals or read body language.

Applications[]

Variations[]

Means[]

  • Empathic Communication: can form an empathic communication with another being, allowing them to having conversation with others using their emotions
  • Intuitive Bilingualism: intuitively speak, understand and even read a secondary language that's addition to their own, despite never having to study the language.
  • Intuitive Multilingualism - capable of intuitively translating and learning new languages, including alien languages.
  • Linguistic Assimilation - know another one's language through physical contact.
  • Projective Omnilingualism - emit a field that translates every language spoken inside it, causing everyone to understand what others are speaking.
  • Telepathic Translation - translate all languages and cause others to hear languages they understand and vice versa.
  • Textual Omnilingualism - the translation of any written language into the user's own native tongue, or through subliminal intuition of what by physical communication means. This ability may even employ telepathic faculty, where the psychic energy is read (by hearing or sight) to understand what the message is meant to convey.

Languages[]

  • Botanical Communication: communicate with all forms of plant-life, including flowers, trees, fruits, vegetables, pollen, etc. either telepathically, by speaking verbally, or by touching it physically
  • Cyberlingualism: communicate either telepathically, by speaking verbally, or by touching it physically, with all forms of technology, including machinery, computers and other electronics
    • Electronic Communication: perceive, understand, control and generate electronic, digital, and radio transmissions with/without accessing any standard source of communication
  • Demonic Communication: communicate with and call upon demons in various ways. This often extends to speaking the language of different demons.
  • Divine Communication: communicate with and call upon their patron deities indirectly or otherwise via various ways
  • Fantasylingualism: speak, write, understand and communicate in mythical and fictional languages.
  • Human Speech Replication: speak, write, understand, and communicate in human language without being human.
  • Nature Communication: can communicate with nature either telepathically, by speaking verbally, or by touching it physically
  • Urban Communication: communicate with industrialization either telepathically, by speaking verbally, or by touching it physically
  • Xenolingualism: speak, write, understand and communicate in alien languages, including writing, with little or no training.
  • Zoolingualism: understand the speech or emotions of animal life forms.

Universe Differences[]

  • May need to know speech/language before recognition of obtained language.
  • May need to carry out a related task or behavior before obtaining knowledge of a language.
  • May need to know the basics of grammar and semantics to fully utilize the learned language.

Associations[]

Limitations[]

  • May receive a backlash if the user tries to speak the language of higher beings (angelic tongue, draconic tongue...), depending on the level of the user.
  • May not have the required organ needed to vocalize certain speech patterns.
  • User might have difficulty telling who/what is speaking whether it’s between human/animals/monsters etc.

Known Users[]

See Also: Omniglot.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa[]

  • Satou Pendragon (Death March to Parallel World Rhapsody)
  • Gengomon (Digimon Universe App Monsters)
  • Whis (Dragon Ball Super)
  • Bubbles (Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z)
  • Language Comprehension users (From Common Job to Strongest in the World)
  • Touya Mochizuki (In Another World With My Smartphone) via Translation)
  • Kaoru Nagase (I Shall Survive Using Potions!)
  • Makoto Misumi (Moon-Led Journey Across Another World; except Common)
  • Kamui Caim (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)
  • Shiro (No Game No Life)
  • Jibril (No Game No Life)
  • Dan Yuseong (Infinite Leveling: Murim)
  • Yoo Sangah (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint); via Interpreter
  • Team Rocket's Meowth (Pokémon Anime series)
  • Dan Yuseong (Infinite Leveling: Murim)
  • Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling)
  • Estir (Sucker For Love)
  • Ln'eta (Sucker For Love)
  • Nyanlathotep (Sucker For Love)
  • Seo Joo-Heon (Tomb Raider King)
  • Immortals/Sennin (Twelve Kingdoms)
  • Takeda (Psych House)

Cartoons/Comics[]

  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Nokama (BIONICLE)
  • Scrooge McDuck (Disney)
  • Various Characters (G.I. Joe)
  • Noodle (Gorillaz)
  • Spawn (Image Comics)
  • Doug Ramsey/Cypher (Marvel Comics)
  • The Watcher (Marvel Cinematic Universe/What If ...?)
  • Kwamis (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)
  • Toothiana/The Tooth Fairy (Rise of the Guardians)
  • Darius (Super/Roulette)
  • Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls)
  • Tamaraneans (Teen Titans)
  • Darwin Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball)

Literature[]

  • Andalites (Animorphs); via brain implants
  • Tatiana Demidova (Demon Accords)
  • Kendra Sorenson (Fablehaven series); limited to Fairy languages
  • Patton Burgess (Fablehaven series); limited to Fairy languages
  • Tess (Fablehaven series); limited to Fairy languages
  • Polyglots, for instance, Sophie Elizabeth Foster and Master Cadence Telle (Keeper of the Lost Cities)
  • Ninu (Lionboy)
  • Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
  • Kate Jones (Ripley's Bureau of Investigation)
  • Ling (Waterfire Saga)

Live Television/Movies[]

  • Translator Alphas (Alphas)
    • Anna Levy
  • Illyria (Angel)
  • Sydney Bristow (Alias)
  • Valeria (Ángel o Demonio)
  • Glory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Whitelighters (Charmed)
    • Leo Wyatt
    • Paige Matthews
  • Chuck Bartowski (Chuck) via Intersect 2.0
  • The Doctor (Doctor Who)
  • The Judoon (Doctor Who); via Translation devices
  • Any traveler in a TARDIS (Doctor Who)
  • The Traveler (Heroes)
  • Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer); human languages, limited to speaking
  • Lucy Miller (Lucy 2014 film)
  • Colleen Wing (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
  • Daniel "Danny" Rand/Iron Fist (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
  • Winter Soldiers (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
  • Eternals (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
    • Ajak; Deceased
    • Druig
    • Gilgamesh; Deceased
    • Ikaris; Deceased
    • Kingo
    • Makkari
    • Phastos
    • Sersi
    • Sprite
    • Thena
  • Ancient One (Marvel Cinematic Universe/What If ...?)
  • Groot (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
  • Myrtle Haplisch (The Nevers)
  • Solon (Power Rangers Dino Fury)
  • Protocol droids (Star Wars)
    • C-3PO
  • Data (Star Trek)
  • Arturis and his entire species (Star Trek
  • Rose Arvale (The Messengers)
  • En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (X-Men Movies)
  • Wizards (Young Wizards Series)

Folklore/Mythology[]

  • Santa Claus (Folklore)
  • Papa Legba (Africon-Haitian Religion/Mythology)

Tabletop Games/Video Games[]

  • Nokama (Bionicle); via Great Kanohi Rau.
  • The Baker (Cookie Clicker)
  • Bluehog (Bluehog Gaming Studio)
  • Characters with the Polyglot epic feat (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • leShay (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • Krile (Final Fantasy V)
  • Haliduth Orspriir (Forgotten Realms)
  • Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
  • Liquid Snake (Metal Gear)
  • Mercane (Planescape)

Web Series[]

  • SCP-049 - The Plague Doctor (SCP Foundation)
  • SCP-682 - Hard-to-Destroy Reptile (SCP Foundation)
  • SCP-38030 - Wolf Hunter Edgewalker Goliter (SCP Foundation)

Known Objects[]

  • Babble Node (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Universal translator device (Adventure Time)
  • The Kanohi Rau, the Mask of Language (Bionicle); allows in its Great form the user to understand any language as well as be able to speak and write them.
  • The Tongue of Babel Spell (Charmed 2018)
  • The Intersect (Chuck)
  • Judoon Translation device (Doctor Who)
  • The TARDIS (Doctor Who); can translate every Language on-the-fly for its passengers.
  • Translation Gummy (Doraemon)
  • Babelfish (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy); in your ear you can understand, but not speak, every language.
  • Communication Translation Rings (Outbreak Company)
  • Drake Tongue (The Spiderwick Chronicles)
  • Universal Translators (Star Trek)
  • Electronic Translators (Star Wars)

Known Locations[]

  • Neighborhood 12358W (The Good Place)

Known Powers[]

  • Tongue of Sun and Moon (AD&D)
  • Allspeak/All-Tongue (Marvel Comics)
  • The System (Solo Leveling)

Gallery[]

Anime/Manga/Manhwa[]

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Live Television/Movies[]

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