Gerudo (Language)

is the written and spoken language of the NaN Gerudos. It was first confirmed as such in the, though it first appeared in. Consisting of 26 different characters, it is directly based on the modern Latin alphabet. It appears at the Gerudo's Training Ground and Spirit Temple (where it appears written in order and its entirety on the stone to the for the stairs at the entrance) in, sparsely at the Arbiter's Grounds in , a stairway in Ganon's Castle in  and throughout Gerudo encampments and Gerudo Town in.

The accompanying spoken language itself was first introduced in, where it is used throughout the Gerudo Region by both the Gerudo and travelers of the region.

Phrases
The Gerudo phrases featured in are derived mostly from Japanese words relating to the desert, or words with a similar meaning. Many of them replace a b sound with v, as the v sound is only used for foreign words in Japanese and is often approximated with a b. This is alluded to in-game with non-Gerudo having the same difficulty differentiating the two sounds.

Trivia

 * The "y" in the Gerudo Typography bears resemblance to the "y" found in the medieval runic alphabet, or.
 * The usage of only two single numbers (1 and 5) suggests that the Gerudo numerical system is a simplified variation of . It is possible that counting would consist of the two available numbers being used consecutively to reach the desired number. For example, 6 would be written "5 1", ten would be written "5 5" and fifty five would thus be written with eleven consecutive 5's.
 * In the original Japanese version of, the transcription table identifies the top and bottom parts of the Series: semi-colon as a period and comma, respectively.
 * The title at the top of the Gerudo Alphabet says "Geldo's Typography" in Gerudo symbols. Geldo may have been the original intention for the name's translation.