Pokémon language (Mystery Dungeon)
The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series features its own unique set of writing systems, separate from the rest of the games and media. Writing is often done using footprint-shaped runes, Unown characters, among other methods.
Ancient Footprint Runes
In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon ancient "foot-shaped" writing can be found in the Voidlands, and around the Pokémon World. The partner character is capable of reading it, while Mawile actively studies it.
Known text can be found at:
- Revelation Mountain
- Cave of the Deep entrance
- Cave of the Deep exit
- Calm Craggy Area exit
- Reverse Mountain
- Prehistoric Ruins
Footprint Runes
Footprint Runes make their first appearance in the Foggy Forest in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, where the partner character identifies the runes on the Groudon Statue. Official artwork of the statue also depicts the runes, while Grovyle's Wanted Posted, among others seen in animation, all depict various footprint-shaped squiggles and runes.
Footprint Runes are also encountered in the Old Ruins on the way to the Rainbow Stoneship during the plot of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, but aren't commented on. It's unknown if they're an ancient variety or at all related to the Unown language.
Ancient Unown language
The ancient Unown language (unofficial name) is found in the Hidden Land, atop the Rainbow Stoneship. In the games, Grovyle only refers to it as an "ancient language", while it's depicted in the animated short Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness as Unown characters. Grovyle and the player character had previously studied it in their past, in the alternate timeline future of the games' plot.
Paper
Throughout the series, Pokémon can be seen both in-game, and in official artwork reading or writing on sheets of paper; or the paper that has previously been written on is read, or can be read.
Instances include:
- Pelipper drops flyers in Pokémon Square after the Fugitive ARC in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team, which Lombre picks up and reads.
- Official artwork for Red and Blue Rescue Team features sheets of paper, and an envelope with a Pelipper sticker.
- Official artwork on the Japanese release of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team features a distraught Pelipper holding a paint brush.
- Pelipper leaves a notice ona sheet of paper in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity.
- At the start of Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Goomy writes his name on a sheet of paper, which the hero character is able to read.
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX features a model of a PKMN News.
Individual languages
Some Pokémon appear to communicate in their own languages. In Red and Blue Rescue Team, Jynx have their own language consisting of musical notes, symbols and other random characters. The dialogue remains the same, even if two Jynx communicate. The second example is Beldum, which claims it can communicate via. Magnetism, which is represented by a series of + and - characters.
In animation
In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness animated short, various unidentified characters are used, while in the Gates to Infinity shorts, OLM used the standard Latin cipher that's been used in the Pokémon animated series since 2010.
In other languages
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