Omnilingualism

Omnilingualism
The Traveler (Heroes) can understand and utilize verbal or non-verbal communication without any prior knowledge of the language
Power/Ability to:	Instantly speak and understand any language fluently

The power to instantly speak and understand any language fluently.

Also Called

• Ciphering/Deciphering
• Innate Multilingualism
• Interpretation
• Language Interpretation
• Lingual Intuition
• Linguistic Assimilation
• Polyglotism

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. User may even communicate with animals or read body language. This ability works by either or both of two faculties:

• Linguistic Assimilation - know another one's language through physical contact.

• Projective Omnilingualism- the translation of one's native tongue or telepathic/subliminal broadcast of one's communication intentions to the minds of others, so that one can speak one's own language and be understood by people who normally wouldn't understand the speaker. The user of this ability may not be able to understand others, but only cause them to understand him.

• 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.

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

Variations

• Electronic Communication (Technoligualism)
  • Ability to communicate with electronic, digital, and radio waves.
• Extraterrestrial Communication (Xenolingualism)
  • Ability to decode any communications with aliens, i.e. an Earthling being to understand Martian (Mars) language.
• Faunal Communication (Zoolingualism)
  • Ability to decipher any animal communication and perform any fluently. The user can understand and speak with animals. Animals still have wills of their own, so this power shouldn’t be confused with Faunal Manipulation.
• Plant Communication (Annuallingualism/Botanilingualism)
  • Ability to communicate with flowers, trees, fruits, vegetables, pollens and other botanical life. The user can communicate either telepathically, by speaking verbally, or by touching it physically.
• Technopathy (Cyberlingualism)
  • Ability to communicate with machinery, computers and other electronics. The user can hack into cyber systems, restore information and break computer codes. Not to be confused with Technology Manipulation nor Cyber Communication which is using technology to communicate.

Universe Differences

• May 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

• Enhanced Intelligence
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Psychometry

Limitations

• May require physical contact with one who speaks the language.
• Should not be mislead of user obtaining Manipulative Skills (Puppet Mastery).
• 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 users hearing, they aren't able to understand it.
• Ability to communicate depends users ability to replicate the form of communication.

Known Users

• Santa Claus (Folklore)
• Leo Wyatt (Charmed)
• Paige Matthews (Charmed)
• Whitelighters (Charmed)
• Tamaraneans (DC Comics)
• Superman (DC Comics)
• Batman (DC Comics)
• Zatanna (DC Comics)
• Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
• Supergirl (DC Comics)
• Medphyll (DC Comics)
• Black Adam (DC Comics)
• Catherine Cobert (DC Comics)
• Brainiac (DC Comics)
• Hal Jordan (DC Comics)
• Darkseid (DC Comics)
• Hawkman (DC Comics)
• Kilowog (DC Comics)
• Recorder (DC Comics)
• Kyle Rayner (DC Comics)
• Superboy-Prime (DC Comics)
• Kal Kent (DC One Million)
• Dick Grayson (DC Comics)
• Vision (Marvel Comics)
• Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
• Deadpool (Marvel Comics)
• Professor X (Marvel Comics)
• Namor (Marvel Comics)
• Sinestro (Marvel Comics)
• Eternity (Marvel Comics)
• Uatu (Marvel Comics)
• Firelord (Marvel Comics)
• Cypher (Marvel)
• Starfire (Teen Titans (DC))
• X-23 (X-Men: Evolution (Marvel))
• Darius (Super/Roulette)
• The Traveler (Heroes)
• C-3PO (Star Wars)
• Spock (Star Trek)
• Nero (Star Trek)
• Data (Star Trek)
• Arturis and his entire species (Star Trek: Voyager)
• Bubbles (Powerpuff Girls)
• Bubbles (Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z)
• Any traveller in a TARDIS (Doctor Who)
• Andalites (Animorphs); via brain implants
• Anna (Alphas)
• Kate Jones (Ripley's Bureau of Investigation)
• Valeria (Ángel o demonio)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog/Archie Comics)
• Bluehog (Bluehog Gaming Studio)
• Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Glory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
• Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
• Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
• Spawn (Image Comics)
• Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
• Scrooge McDuck (Disney)
• Nokama (BIONICLE)
• Sydney Bristow (Alias)
• Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
• Wizards(Young Wizards Series)
• Liquid Snake (Metal Gear)
• The Doctor (Doctor Who)
• Characters with the Polyglot epic feat (Dungeons & Dragons)
• leShay (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Nokama (Bionicle); via Great Kanohi Rau.

Know Objects

• The TARDIS can translate every Language on-the-fly for it's passengers (Doctor Who)
• With a Babelfish (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) in your ear you can understand, but not speak, every language.

Gallery

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

Tamaraneans, like Starfire, can learn foreign languages through physical contact, such as kissing.

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