The Legend Of Zelda

The Hylian Alphabet of Twilight Princess differs from the one of The Wind Waker in that it is derived from the Roman Alphabet. Below are the direction transliterations for each of the twenty-six letters of the Roman Alphabet into TP Hylian, so that you can read the various Hylian signs and writings in Twilight Princess.

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

     

The Hylian Alphabet is made of 71 glyphs and 10 numerals. Listed below is each glyph, followed by immediately below it the roman alphabet translation. This table is based on the one produced for TDC by Stefan, and many thanks therefore are due to him for his extensive work which laid the foundations for this whole section.

a	i	u	e	o
ka	ki	ku	ke	ko	ga	gi	gu	ge	go
sa	shi	su	se	so	za	zi	zu	ze	zo
ta	chi	tsu	te	to	da	ji	ju	de	do
na	ni	nu	ne	no
ha	hi	fu	he	ho	ba	bi	bu	be	bo
ma	mi	mu	me	mo	pa	pi	pu	pe	po
ya		yu		yo
ra	ri	ru	re	ro	1	2	3	4	5
wa		n		o	6	7	8	9	0

     

There are two ways to translate while using the Hylian alphabet. The first is to translate English words into Hylian, or vice versa Hylian words into English. Described below are the two distinct procedures to follow to perform these tasks.

Hylian to English

1. Decipher the Hylian word you have before you to its romanized equivalent. You can do this utilizing the Ancient Hylian Alphabet translated on this site.

2. A note: if you spot a half-size Tsu glyph, that means you double the following consonant (but not the vowel). An example is the word:

To translate it to English, you start with the first glyph, which is "mo". The second is the little tsu, so you move on to the next glyph, which is "te". Therefore, you double the consonant in "te" to "tte" and you end up with "motte" as a translation.<br>

3. Go to this great Japanese/English Translator and use the bottom text box to translate the word you just got from Japanese to English. (Continuing with our example, "motte" translates to "with").

English to Hylian

1. Take your English word and go to this great Japanese/English Translator and use the top text box to translate the word you just got from English to Japanese.

2. With the Japanese word in hand, then use this site's Ancient Hylian Alphabet to translate the letters to Hylian glyphs.

3. Note point #2 in the Hylian to English for the deal with small tsu glyphs and double consonants.

     

Here are some commonly found words in the Legend of Zelda series translated into their Hylian language counterparts. On each line is the word in English, then it's Japanese equivalent, and then in Hylian.

Adventure	BOKEN
Baba	BABA
Bomb	BAKUDAN
Coffee	KOHI
Cucco	KOKKO
Deku	DEKU
Deku Nut	DEKU MI
Desert	SABAKU
Dream	YUMI
Fairy	YOUSEI
Ganon	GANON
Gerudo	GERUDO
Goddesses	KAMIGAMI
Golden	GO-RUDEN
Goron	GORON
Hylia	HAIRIA
Hylian	HAIRIAN
Hyrule	HAIRARU
Island	TOU
Kakariko	KAKARIKO
Kingdom	OUKOKU
Kokiri	KOKIRI
Lake Hylia	NUMA HAIRIA
Legend	DENSETSU
Link	RINKU
Lon Lon Milk	RON RON MIRUKU
Lon Lon Ranch	RON RON BOKUYA
Map	MAPPU
Mask	KAMEN
Minish	PIKORI
Ocarina	OKARINA
Oracle	ORAKURU
Potion	KUSURI
Rito	RITO
Rupee	RUPI
Sage	SEIJIN
Shop	SHOPPU
Song	UTA
Tingle	TINGURU
Time	TOKI
Tree	KI
Triforce	TORACHIKARA
Wind	KAZE
Wind Waker	KAZE NO TAKUTO
Zelda	ZERUDA
Zora	ZORA