Omnilingualism

The power to instantly learn, speak and understand any language fluently. Sub-power of Omni-Communication. Opposite to Alternative Communication.

Also Called

• Allspeak/All-Tongue
• Ciphering/Deciphering
• Ears of Sand (Midnight Occult Civil Servants)
• Gift of Tongues
• Glossolalia
• Innate Multilingualism
• Interpretation
• Language Interpretation
• Lingual Intuition
• Linguistic Assimilation/Intelligence
• Omnilingual Translation
• Polyglotism
• Omniglot
• Enhanced Language Understanding

Capabilities

User can speak, write, understand and communicate in any language, including computer codes, languages they 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. This ability works by any one or more of these faculties.

• Aligist - able to speak, read, write and understand all languages. This however does not mean animals or anything other than human languages. Some certain type of aligist may also be able to understand underwater creatures but they are quite rare.
• 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.
• Receptive 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.
• Telepathic Translation - translate all languages and cause others to hear language they understand and vice versa.

Usually, this ability is reciprocal, so that the user and the subjects can understand and communicate with one another efficiently.

Applications

• Body Language Analysis
• Empathy
• Decodification
• Codification

Variations

• Cyberlingualism: communicate either telepathically, by speaking verbally, or by touching it physically, with all forms of technology, including machinery, computers and other electronics
• Divine Communication
• Electronic Communication
• Intuitive Bilingualism: intuitively speak, understand and even read a secondary language thats addition to their own, despite never having to study the language.
• Nature Communication
• Urban Communication
• 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

• Alternative Communication
• Enhanced Intelligence
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Knowledge Replication
• Omni-Communication
• Psychometry

Limitations

• Ability to communicate depends on the user's ability to replicate the form of communication.
• Doesn't work on nonverbal communication.
• Users of Alternative Communication cannot be learned.
• Should not be mislead of user obtaining Manipulative Skills (Puppet Mastery).
• May require physical contact with one who speaks the language.
• May not be able to read/write the foreign language.
• Some users may only be able to translate and/or interpret the language.
• May be limited to the forms of communications that the user can perceive. If the language involves, say, sounds beyond the user's hearing, they aren't able to understand it.

Known Users

See Also: Omniglot

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Cartoons/Comics

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.
• Universal Translators (Star Trek)
• The TARDIS (Doctor Who) can translate every Language on-the-fly for it's passengers.
• Judoon Translation device (Doctor Who)
• Translation Gummy (Doraemon)
• Communication Translation Rings (Outbreak Company)
• With a Babelfish (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) in your ear you can understand, but not speak, every language.

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

Thanks to the System, Sung Jin-Woo (Solo Leveling) can fluently speak the languages of various humanoid Dungeon monsters.

Team Rocket's Meowth (Pokémon)

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Cartoon/Comics

Tamaraneans, like Starfire (Teen Titans), can learn foreign languages through physical contact, such as kissing.

After regaining her lost memories, Noodle (Gorillaz) could speak fluent English and every other known language in the world.

A hyper-linguist, Doug Ramsey/Cypher (Marvel Comics) has a superhuman facility for translating any languages, spoken or written, human or alien in origin.

While in space, Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog) was implanted with the Babble Node, a translation chip that allows him to speak and understand all languages, from aliens to non-Mobian animals.

Toothiana/The Tooth Fairy (Rise of the Guardians) is able to speak every language and communicate with many different beings.

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Live Television/Movies

Piper (Charmed) speaking French.

Whitelighters such as Leo Wyatt (Charmed) always speak and understand any language that their charges do.

The Doctor (Doctor Who) knows just about every language in the universe, including 'baby'.

The Judoon (Doctor Who) can speak any language they come across via using a special translation device to "assimilate" languages.

All the inhabitants of the neighborhood 12358W (The Good Place) can understand each other, regardless of the language they speak.

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