Talk:Hylian (language)

Should links be added to places where users can download Hylian fonts?

Twilight Princess/Wind Waker
While it's quite clear that Twilight Princess comes before Wind Waker, this line seems a bit out of place:

"Strangely, though, the script used in The Wind Waker is used on tombstones in Kakariko Village Graveyard in Twilight Princess, which appears to defy logic as the general consensus among Legend of Zelda fans is that The Wind Waker comes chronologically after the Twilight Princess, so it makes no sense that a script that is supposedly not yet invented appears on ancient tombstones."

Why, you ask? Because while Twilight Princess obviously comes before Wind Waker, it also quite obviously takes place quite some time after OOT. Take for example the girl who owns the fishing area, she calls the fisherman from OOT her "ancestor". Ancestor isn't a term one uses for a recent relative like an aunt or a grandmother, but something used to describe family members long gone, usually ones from generations past. What I'm saying is that we have no idea how many hundreds and/or thousands of years took place between OOT and Twilight Princess, which means the old language of OOT could have been long-scrapped and replaced by the new language first seen in Wind Waker.

I believe this bit of information should be included in said statement, if that statement needs to stay at all. --156.34.84.17 05:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It's the fact that there is a new latin alphabet for Twilight Princess - the ancient Hylian from OoT is completely gone. I think it's not that odd though - the alphabet/language used may be instance based - WW Hylian for gravestones, TP Hylian for temples and common language. Though it's odd that WW Hylian is important enough to be used for gravestones but not centuries old temples. Possibly, the WW Hylian has a certain fatalistic, hopeless feeling to it - or conversely, a longing for an age gone by. Either of these would fit on a gravestone, and it might make sense for either the morbid or nostalgiac language be reinstated after the Great Flood. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.211.175.99 (talk) 20:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

Book of Mudora
Does the Book of Mudora contain Hylian text? - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:45, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * If you are talking about the book in LttP, it only contains three different characters, which pretty much serves the purpose of "magic gibberish". -MissingNOOO 14:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * How it was written doesn't matter - what matters is what was the book's language called? - A Link to the Past (talk) 13:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The chart is inaccurate
It was based off of the font at http://www.tjhsst.edu/~aparthum/ and I've confirmed with the guy that it's not accurate (specifically, the blurs from texture filtering distort the perception of characters a bit). Moreover, it could use a bit of labelling as to what syllable means what. -MissingNOOO 14:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Um
whats happened to this page? did someone merge and redirect? because this is a legitimate article.... C. Pineda 23:40, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, see the history. To add my opinion, I don't see why this article shouldn't have been merged. It was very short and lacked sources. &mdash; Malcolm (talk) 00:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * last time i saw it it had a whole science behind decyrpting the hylian language C. Pineda 09:12, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This? Wikipedia articles need reliable sources. This could be considered original research. &mdash; Malcolm (talk) 18:18, 2 September 2007 (UTC)