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What is Kuogane's language???

Akemi Hoshi Aki

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:54 pm

What is Kurogane's language??? i've been wondering because i want to know what he says in book 2 on page 77, page 78,and on page 80. please help me find this out! (if possible fai's language 2! blaugh )

Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:05 pm

The text they used to represent his language isn't necessarily what he would speak. I mean, I think Fai's language had triangles in it, for example. I'd assume he speaks a very traditional form of Japanese, being that he's from Japan, but I think the manga showed the characters as Chinese in the Del Rey version.

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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:25 am

or maybe the mangaka just drew some random symbols.... who knows?

by the way Akemi Hoshi Aki I love your avatar!

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:00 pm

thx! 4 da compliments and 4 tryin 2 help me out evry1! ^_^ u guys r da bestest! 4laugh

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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:26 pm

I would say he'd speak very proper/traditional Japanese.

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:14 pm

there is no particual language that he speaks in the manga(after all it fiction)
but if you must know
i have no ideaXD

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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:37 pm

japanese :3

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:20 pm

Well they said in the back of the book if you know that type of Chinese you can probably look it up somehow and find a rough idea of what he's saying o: btw Kurogane ftw <3 >.> and sorry if you already knew that and it didn't help lol

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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:08 am

I believe they said Japanese because he's from Japan.

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:07 pm

Pretty sure I heard Fai speak french...

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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:20 pm

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Pretty sure I heard Fai speak French...

I'm assuming you heard it in the English anime?

It's pretty inaccurate, actually. In the manga, it's more similar to languages from Russia or Europe. French is actually a really bad guess on it, since the characters look more roman or European than French. I think Bee-Train was just trying artistic license, aha.

Either way, he also resembles someone from Russia, and so it makes more sense. P:

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:31 am

I guess here's where a Chinese GCSE comes into use...

I translated the Kanji characters in Kurogane's dialogue:

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Kanji is a Japanese character form based on Chinese, and since Kurogane uses only Kanji in this dialogue, he could be speaking either. However, because of the culture of his country (Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu, etc.) and the fact that he uses a Japanese sword, I'd say it's Japan.

Also, Fai uses Russian characters. Though I could not find a translation for his dialogue, I can say that all characters he speaks are in modern Russian. No outdated characters could be found.

Edit:

Okay, not sure if this only applies to my computer, but all Photobucket images are not showing. I'll give a text translation instead. Kurogane firstly asks about travel/carrying to an island by flight, then the next page, he talks about a path to Hanshin Castle.

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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:29 pm

The picture is showing for me~ thanks :3!

Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:45 pm

Kurogane speaks Japanese. It says so in the translation notes. He's from Japan, even though they call his country Nihon. Nihon is Japanese for Japan. The reason the characters are also close to Chinese is because they're in kanji, which is either the same or extremely similar between Japan and China.

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