Jabber Nut

"You...seem to be having some trouble with our language, don't you? You could use a Jabber Nut. It will allow you to understand our tongue."

- Festari

The Jabber Nut is a key item in The Minish Cap that allows the consumer to communicate with the Minish. Very early in The Minish Cap, Link must consume one in the Minish Woods in order to understand the local Minish, after Festari, the only Minish in the Minish Village who understands human languages, directs Link to its location within a barrel house nearby, inside the Minish Village. Without the Jabber Nut, the Minish language looks like "picoco pico ripico!" which is just simple unintelligible gibberish to Link and Ezlo.

Trivia
The german version of the game uses actual German for the Minish language, simply written backwards. For example, one of the Minish Link meets when first arriving at the village says: "Hcsnem nie!", which is just ''"Ein Mensch!" (A Human)'' written backwards. That doesn't change the fact that Link still needs to obtain the Jabber Nut to progress in the game.