Pirate Dialect! The Gerudo Language

The Pirate Dialect of Gerudo

Even though they all come from the same place, the Terminian Gerudos (AKA the Pirates) have their own dialect of the Gerudo Language. They also do not use Me-Vírdas alphabet, because only the Desert Gerudo use it. Instead, they use a Latin-based alphabet.

    The grammar rules are quite different (that's why it's not called "an accent"). However, there are some differences in word pronunciation: like Al-oo-min-nium in British English v.s. A-loo-mi-num in American English. The American and British English are separated by accent. Pirate and Desert dialects of Gerudo are much like the Chinese Cantonese v.s. Mandarin dialects (which are very different).

Desert Pirate
æ (æ sound) a (a) sound replacesæ (æ)(best example: yanAE becomes yanAH)
e (e sound) x (-ay sound like the English word eye) sound (example: Bell-kay (alcohol)becomes Bell-k-eye) .

Only exception to this rule is if -e is in number words, months, and plural suffix.

ð (harsh th sound) θ (soft th sound) replaces harsh-th sound (ð sound does not exist in this dialect)

    Which dialect you choose to speak is up to you. The Desert, however, was first and is used to teach the Gerudo Language.

    Pirate Gerudos have spent so much time on the sea and plundering Terminian vessels, that they have set up a different grammar structure. This is because they have chosen to adapt their grammar to the Terminian Dialect of Hylian and this is what makes them distinctive from the Desert Dwellers.

Sentence structure example:

Desert: Va da késto, promín har dasu!

Pirate: Promín dasu va da késto!

   

As a demonstration: I have put together a Mala Vírdas-rand or mini-dictionary (audio included!) of words that are only found in Pirate Dialect. Pirate Dialect-only words

If you are insterested in studying this dialect(or you're just curious): please visit our, new, baby-sister site!
Va Shínmalanív (Pirate Dialect)! This site was created and built by the same person behind this web-site!

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