Hylian Language (Twilight Princess)

Hylian is a fictional language created for the Zelda game world and is used in Twilight Princess in the world of Hyrule.

Hylian writing is similar to a classical writing but with each letter replaced by an Hylian symbol.

Example: A becomes , B becomes , etc.

There is no difference between upper and lower case and there is no question of punctuation and to write numbers, it is better to write the numbers in letters beforehand.

Example: HYLIAN becomes

Each Hylian symbol has an equivalent letter in the latin alphabet, decoding a word is to translate each symbol by its corresponding letter.

Example: translates ZELDA

The message is composed of rounded symbols, some resembling the Latin characters.

Any reference to Link character, Zelda's game or universe is a clue.

With each new Zelda, the Hylian language has undergone variations

In some versions for Wii console, the symbols appear in mirror writing compared to the GameCube version.

This version of the Hylian language appears in Twilight Princess but also a little bit in Skyward Sword (although the majority of the symbols in this other game use a dedicated Hylian Skyward Sword alphabet).