Tool to translate the Gerudo language from the Zelda video game universe (from Ocarina of Time then Twilight Princess and in Breath of the Wild)
Gerudo Language - dCode
Tag(s) : Symbol Substitution
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Gerudo Language
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What is the Gerudo? (Definition)
The Gerudo refers both to a fictional people in The Legend of Zelda universe and to the writing system associated with that people. Gerudo is primarily a fictional alphabet used to transcribe messages using specific symbols.
Some sources indicate that geldo is the official name of the Gerudo typeface.
How to write/encrypt using Gerudo language?
Writing or encoding in Gerudo involves replacing each letter of the Latin alphabet with a corresponding symbol from the Gerudo alphabet.
This process is a simple monoalphabetic substitution: the same letter always corresponds to the same Gerudo symbol.
| A |  | B |  | C |  | D |  | E |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F |  | G |  | H |  | I |  | J |  |
| K |  | L |  | M |  | N |  | O |  |
| P |  | Q |  | R |  | S |  | T |  |
| U |  | V |  | W |  | X |  | Y |  |
| Z |  | 1 |  | 5 |  | ? |  | ! |  |
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Note that two numbers (the 1 and the 5) and two punctuation symbols (the question mark ? and the exclamation mark !) appear in the game transcripts.
Example: ZELDA is translated
In Zelda games, messages in Gerudo are usually transcribed from English messages (but not all texts are simple transcriptions: some Gerudo words like Sav'otta, Voe, Vai do not have a direct letter-for-letter equivalent)
How to translate/decrypt Gerudo messages?
Translating or decoding Gerudo is essentially the reverse of encoding. Each Gerudo symbol represents a specific Latin letter. Translation is therefore done using a table that corresponds to letters of the alphabet in Gerudo symbols.
Example: is translated GERUDO.
How to recognize a Gerudo ciphertext?
The language of Gerudo is used by women warriors of the same name in the video game Zelda. Their people live near a desert and are ruled by a man Ganon/Ganondorf. Any reference to these elements is a clue.
The symbols are quite vertical, very rounded with long curves resembling commas/lines drawn with a brush.
dCode uses the work of sarinilli here
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