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Black Speech

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Black Speech	comment	The language of Mordor, spoken only by The One Whose Name Must Never Be Uttered and his Religion of Evil and various dark cults. An indecipherable language that is cruel to the ears, full of hard consonants, guttural sounds, and always spoken loudly and harshly. Every word sounds like a blasphemy against All That Is Good, and the people speaking it often are as evil as they sound. If there is magic in the setting, expect speaking this language to be necessary to use Black Magic. In some cases, it's so alien and gravelly that it seems that a normal human throat should be incapable of speaking itâ€¦ and sometimes, they can't speak it, only those with the Voice of the Legion can. In many cases, merely speaking the words is sufficient to twist reality or make unspeakable horrors appear. This is the Black Speech, the default mode of communication for inhuman villains, and Sound-Coded for Your Convenience. Where the elves and humans will speak in a pleasing, song-like language, and dwarves may (read: always) have a charming Scottish burr or Welsh brogue note in Tolkien's world, this is averted, as what is known of Dwarvish holds more similarity to Hebrew, but in the film, it's in full force with Gimli, the Evil Minions using Black Speech can shatter glass and eardrums and sanity with a simple "pass the salt". On a more meta level, this is a direct emotional appeal to the viewer, invoking the "otherness" felt when hearing a foreign language crossed with the Scare Chord to make the good guys seem like downright saints compared to the bad guys. The effect is sometimes doubled by having Aliens Natives Speaking English. Once upon a time, Nazis speaking German were considered to be using Black Speech (likely, the actors were hamming it up to sound scarier). Nowadays, German is just another language alongside French (indeed, if anything, it's a bit camp). Using real but obscure languages as models for a fictional Black Speech because they sound very peculiar to native speakers of your language can get you into trouble. This seems to happen to Native American languages quite a bit. Although the villains may speak among themselves in black speech, their dialogue may provide important details for the audience to understand the plot. In this case, the dialogue may have normal subtitles. Works using this trope will often discuss The Power of Language. Not to be confused with Ebonics (although it literally means "black speech"), or with black Color-Coded Speech or Rainbow Text. noreallife
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Black Speech / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact has the magic scrolls, dropped by Samachurls on death. Depending on the rarity of the scrolls, they also have their own descriptive texts. The most common ones "exude an inexplicable but ominous warmth", while the rarer ones are said to be indecipherable; the few who could understand it "have all went mad".
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Black Speech / int_1364260e	comment	Once: Several inadvertently conjured phantom witches, said never to have been "of human breed" taunt their summoner in "an unknown language."
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Black Speech / int_13a61240	comment	The Sith language in The Rise of Skywalker is treated this way. The heroes need to translate information written in Sith runes, and C-3PO informs them that while he can understand them, he's programmed not to translate them in accordance with Old Republic law - and the information can only be accessed by black market hacking.
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Black Speech / int_14205e40	comment	Penny Dreadful has the Verbis Diablo, the language spoken by the witches and the demonic entities they serve. It is said to be a corrupted version of the angelic language spoken in the Garden of Eden before the fall of man.
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Black Speech / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: While it never shows up outside of cutscenes, the appearance of the Darkspawn is frequently heralded by an ominous whispering. Possibly this is meant to indicate that the Warden is sensing them.
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Black Speech / int_1bd53ae0	comment	The wicked rat creatures in Bone have a secret language called Nessen that sounds mysteriously like broken German. Mind you, Nessen is closer to a military cypher than actual black speech: Ratmen speak in human language normally and only switch to it when they're discussing sensitive subjects and are afraid to be overheard. Several humans listen in to it without any worse effects than "cannot understand any of it", and some of the characters like Lucius can also understand it.
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Black Speech / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Destiny and its sequel have Rasputin the Warmind, who speaks in heavily-distorted Russian. It's not so bad in the first game, but by the time of the second, he sounds like this. Fallen Speak sounds pretty Black Speech-y, too.
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Black Speech / int_1d1c24a3	comment	Homerooms & Hall Passes has a mildly parodic take on such languages, two of which are used in the story's resident Tome of Eldritch Lore: Shadownese is "the primordial language of darkness." This is a downplayed example, since it's also the language of the gloom elves, who aren't necessarily evil. Fiendish is "the unholy language of demons."
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Black Speech / int_1e43fea	comment	The Whisperer in Darkness. Nathaniel Ward quickly switches off the phonograph when Wilmarth says he's been listening to the wax cylinder recording of the cultist ceremony throughout the night. In a Missing Trailer Scene, Wilmarth listens to the cylinder while a cat sits impassively nearby. Suddenly ANOTHER voice cuts in on the recording, and the cat startles and hisses.
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Black Speech / int_2212773a	comment	The only way to break Jasmine's Glamour spell on Angel was to speak her true name. When the Fang Gang gets ahold of the head of a demon whose mouth is sewn shut, they cut it open. What sounds like a mere exhale was Jas' true name, but sounded like something humans (or vampires) wouldn't even be able to pronounce.
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Black Speech / int_230a483f	comment	Salem: What the Elders of the witches speak, though they seem to know English as well.
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Black Speech / int_23d67c89	comment	Doing the voice work for The Necromancer/Sauron in The Hobbit made Benedict Cumberbatch feel a bit dirty. He said in an interview that afterwards he wanted to "speak The Queen's English and have a cup of tea."
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Black Speech / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: One of the show's favorite gags is the depiction of Russian and German languages as guttural and hostile to English speakers. In every instance, the subtitles reveal that the speaker is actually saying something pleasant or benign.
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Black Speech / int_267cbfa	comment	Subverted by Luna in Dominic Deegan, who has a couple outbursts in an ancient, guttural language (represented by black word bubbles filled with nothing but punctuation and non-letter symbols) during the too-long March Across Maltak saga. The Shintula and Bikta orcs view her using this language as horrible blasphemy, despite the fact that each outburst makes beautiful greenery appear all around her in an otherwise completely dead landscape. We later learn that, like the Words of Creation discussed in the "Book of Vile Darkness" entry under Tabletop Games, the language is actually the polar opposite of Black Speech - it is a holy language, and the orcs' offense comes from the fact that an unworthy human has dared to speak it.
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Black Speech / int_2a4c791e	comment	The title character of Ah! My Goddess, while benevolent, uses a language like this for some of her spells. (It's part of a larger issue of understanding between her and the male lead.)
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Black Speech / int_30065ab	comment	The Devil in Cuphead speaks in some otherly language when casting spells for certain attacks.
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Black Speech / int_310d6df7	comment	The radio in chapter 3 of Stand Still, Stay Silent utters some, written as white, scribbled letters on black background. It's gibberish mixed with Swedish "who am (I)", "please", "beware" and "no no no". The earliest sign that Tuuri did indeed get infected with the rash was that she started to hear it without a radio.
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Black Speech / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: Kyril and his apprentices (except Soren) have advanced through Rad, killing everything in their way to hunt down Shamuhaza. Upon reaching a courtyard, a maddening drone drowns out the silence, "in a language so incomprehensible that lesser men would have torn their own throats to escape it". Kyril, of course, is unfazed, but not so much for the other three. Sanakan mutters that everything sounds wrong, Hugh shakes his head in a grimace, and Lily turns paler than usual. The tongue of Garan that the dark elves speak merely comes across as this. This language is described as "sibilant" or "spiteful", "like the whisperings of a murderer at the bedside of a dead man", but it is not inherently evil, just as how the dark elves are not depicted as Always Chaotic Evil. There's also no Brown Note involved, obviously.
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Black Speech / int_387f39f6	comment	In Yokoka's Quest, Darkness Clan language appears as jagged grey text on a black background, or as jagged markings if the perspective character doesn't understand it. It's described as sounding screechy and hurts the throats of those not used to speaking it. It's also the language of curses.
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Black Speech / int_38f1727d	comment	In Lucifer, South African languages are used by demons (technically, just by Mazikeen but aimed to her siblings); for the most part, it's Afrikaans, native for Lesley-Ann Brandt and used by her in several occasions, once also a phrase in Zulu for which actress had to consult with a friend.
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Black Speech / int_39bd654e	comment	The Redemption of Althalus, by David Eddings: the Book of Daeva is effectively written in this.
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Black Speech / int_3b34143f	comment	Although not inherently evil, Parseltongue in Harry Potter definitely sounds creepy, seeing as it's the language of snakes and consists entirely of inhuman hissing. It doesn't help that certain infamous practitioners of The Dark Arts (including Herpo the Foul, Salazar Slytherin, and Slytherin's descendant Lord Voldemort) could speak the language. As such, in the Potterverse, Sealed Evil in a Can often requires a Parseltongue password to unlock.
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Black Speech / int_3ef9fee0	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_3ef9fee0	comment	In Dark Ones Mistress, both the soul-stealing and Brainwashed spell come out as a guttural, garbled mess that pulls at those who hear it.
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Black Speech / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	In the New Jedi Order, the Yuuzhan Vong language is extremely harsh, alternately guttural and sibilant, and bears a passing resemblance to the Trope Namer. One character (who recognizes the language, but doesn't speak it) thinks it sounds like it's composed entirely of curses. Interestingly, the direct translations given show it to be a surprisingly poetic language, one rich in imagery and metaphor, albeit one that is often used, owing to the nature of its speakers, to talk about horrible things.
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Black Speech / int_4098209c	comment	Reservation Dogs: In a flashback to an Indian residential school, the abusive English-speaking nuns and teachers have their words dubbed with meaningless gibberish. This shows the boarding school experience from the point of view of Native children who do not speak English. Their tone is always very harsh, which serves to make them sound guttural and quite menacing, even monstrous, appropriately enough.
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Black Speech / int_40cf3190	comment	The hillfolk in the Wrong Turn series understand English, but most of them forgo speaking it in favor of a bizarre gibberish.
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Black Speech / int_4110f1d0	comment	Baten Kaitos Origins: Your companion, Guillo, who is some sort of androgynous puppet/robot, speaks in two voices simultaneously. One is female and one is male, just to confuse you a little bit more. Additionally (and a better example), when angry, Guillo's voice becomes intensely more demonic.
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Black Speech / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: The Antimemetics Division, written primarily by qntm, frequently encounter antagonists which speak in meaningless syllables and phrases, interspersed with normal speech. This having been said, the syllables may be meaningless, but they're just close enough to meaning as we know it that the human mind tries to decipher them. And that's how they get you.
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Black Speech / int_43576f5	comment	Enochian in Supernatural. Partly subverted in that it's used in just about equal measure by both good guys and bad guys (chiefly for spells and exorcisms).
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Black Speech / int_43771bb6	comment	PokÃ©mon World Tour: United: In episode 21, Rose is using her Togepi, Scramble, in a Contest. Every round she has Scramble use Metronome. When Scramble does so, it's described as summoning the aura of the Pokemon using the move Togepi's Metronome causes. All goes mostly well until the final round of the contest, when Scramble channels a move belonging to Mewtwo. Togepi's voice changes ("Togepriiii!) and people close by hear a deep, dark voice say "Psycho Cut".
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Black Speech / int_467773a6	comment	Death Troopers in Rogue One communicate in a choppy, sinister noise that has this effect. It combines with their size and black armour to make them appear as sinister as possible. Even the sounds they make when falling aren't really all that human.
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Black Speech / int_49a88442	comment	The Ascians' speech in Final Fantasy XIV is an incomprehensible, guttural tongue presented in sinister black text boxes, although it's subtitled normally thanks to the Echo. Subverted when Shadowbringers reveals it's just the language of their ancient civilization; while the text boxes are still black and spooky, it's much less terrifying when they're asking if you need help getting home rather than threatening to kill you.
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Black Speech / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, demonology-spec warlocks had a spell called Metamorphosis, which temporarily transformed them into a demon. While under the influence of this spell they are affected by demon-targeting spells (such as Banish) and speak only in Demonic.
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Black Speech / int_49ff762	comment	In Torchwood, Owen speaks in this while The Grim Reaper passes through him. Ironically, the magic words Owen repeats in that demonic voice are taken from Stephen Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, in which they are the "Seven Words", a blessing.
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Black Speech / int_4ba244d1	comment	In Five Nights at Freddy's, Freddy will taunt you over the phone using Black Speech exactly 24 hours after he kills the Phone Guy. SpoilersAs part of another story-related Easter Egg, it's a garbled, backmasked excerpt from "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramhansa Yogananda, speaking about "marvelous mechanisms" used for farming.
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Black Speech / int_4c56381b	comment	Satan from The Binding of Isaac talks in some deep, guttural, incomprehensible growling. Turns out it's actually voice clips from Mom, but pitched down, distorted and played backwards.
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Black Speech / int_4f14e537	comment	The New Adventures of Invader Zim: Whenever Norlock casts magic, he's described as speaking in a language no one else present understands. A snippet of this is presented in Episode 16 when he's summoning up an army of monsters from the underworld; Word of God is that it's just random gibberish the author typed out while writing the chapter.
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Black Speech / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: after going grimdark, Rose appears to be incapable of talking outside of this. This naturally leads to a language barrier when she runs into John. Becsprite seems to have a similar problem, though since his speech is only denoted with scribbles, it could just be a case of You Cannot Grasp the True Form.
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Black Speech / int_51649603	comment	Parhelion: Basilisk speaks in jagged, glitched static that gets more distorted when they're agitated. No translator is necessary.
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Black Speech / int_5191d0b5	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_5191d0b5	comment	In the German/Israeli film Walk on Water, German was this during Eyal's childhood - his German Jewish family survived the Holocaust, and only spoke Hebrew after they came to Israel (when they thought he wasn't listening, that is).
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Black Speech / int_52eb7183	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_52eb7183	comment	Irregular Webcomic!: the several personifications of death talk in ALL CAPS when talking to mortals. They talk normal among peers though, because they don't have to act ominous then.
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Black Speech / int_544333c5	comment	In "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", the voices of Innsmouth's mutant inhabitants is described as a "bestial babel of croaking, baying and barking without the least suggestion of human speech" and a "hateful guttural patois."
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Black Speech / int_56e1779c	comment	Demons in Kill Six Billion Demons speak a language known as "Black Speech" amongst themselves. When it's translated to English via Translation Convention it resembles a temporal mish-mash of English mixing modern and antiquated terms, alongside slipping into words that look like they came from Nadsat and a lot of invective. Translation notes translates it further into comprehensible English.
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Black Speech / int_5811e12c	comment	Starry Eyes: The language spoken by Taylor's friends is this.
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Black Speech / int_59da62aa	comment	The evil White Legs tribe in Fallout: New Vegas: Honest Hearts speak a barbaric pidgin language.
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Black Speech / int_5bd0554b	comment	Eredun (often referred to as simply "Demonic"), and its written form, Eredic, in Warcraft games. Lots of Xs and Zs here too. As an added bonus, reading demonic scriptures places your sanity at risk. Presumably, the language of the Draenei, which is based on the uncorrupted version of Eredic and sounds quite similar, doesn't have that effect. Additionally, it seems that speaking demonic has a negative effect on one's ability to cast spells for non-demons. Evidenced by the fact that Warlocks can curse an opponent into being able to speak nothing else, which slows the speed at which they can cast spells. In World of Warcraft, demonology-spec warlocks had a spell called Metamorphosis, which temporarily transformed them into a demon. While under the influence of this spell they are affected by demon-targeting spells (such as Banish) and speak only in Demonic. Kalimag, the language of the Elementals. Considering it's in use by the Twilight's Hammer cult, it counts. Listen for yourself. There's also the language of the Old Gods, Shath'yar, spoken in-game only by them, their servants, and those unfortunate mortals who have been driven insane by prolonged contact. You can view a good sampling of it here. It sounds much like a Shout-Out to the Cthulhu Mythos, as all things related to the Old Gods are. The Scourge has its own language, referred to in the game as the 'language of death'. It appears that only a current or former member of the Scourge can speak or translate it. Amusing if one's character is a Death Knight, but still has to take a Scourge tome to an NPC Death Knight to have it translated. As a Shout-Out, one of the Nathrezim's warcries is "Ash nazg kimpatul!"
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Black Speech / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Warframe: Fitting their brutish and industrial aesthetic, the Grineer's language sounds very rough and harsh on the ears, and may even sound like gibberish at first - though it's actually modified, heavily corrupted English, leading to almost unrecognizable phrases like "Gredoarhung" ('Reloading'), or "Kley'gre reger" ('they're here') to what sounds basically like English with a speech impediment, like "No aktuvhutee to gregort." (No activity to report). Justified, as the Grineer are a race of clones who suffer from severe Clone Degradation, it's a miracle most of them are able to speak at all. The eldritch avatar of the Void of Warframe, The Man in The Wall, speaks a bizarre language of harsh consonants and guttural sounds referred to as the "Voidtongue" by Albrecht Entrati. The good professor was worried it was meaningless, but was even moreso that there was meaning to it, especially since the Requiem Mods Tenno use to kill Grineer Kuva Liches and the Corpus' Sisters of Parvos use Voidtongue words and said words do have translations.note For example, "Jahu" means "Form" and "Lohk" means "Void". On top of that, the first spoken instance of the Voidtongue - which occurs at the end of the "The New War" quest - is so utterly deep and distorted that for literal years players misheard it as a recitation of several of those Requiem Mod words.note The misheard sequence was given as "OULL RIS XATA VOME, KHRA LOHK," which have associated requiem poem segments that matched the quest's story beats quite closely and, aside from "Oull", all have translations. Below is the actual transcript of the Voidtongue recitation at the end of "The New War", given with the "Whispers in the Walls" quest tied to The Man in The Wall:
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Black Speech / int_5c66fff9	comment	Neverwinter Nights 2: Late in the main quest you acquire the true names of several creatures called Shadow Reavers that were created by the Big Bad from the corpses of mages that had been working for him. However, the scrolls are written in a fiendish language that only your party members Zhjaeve (a planewalking scholar and cleric) and Ammon Jerro (a warlock who has trafficked extensively with demons and devils) can read.
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Black Speech / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Parodied with the Abyssals, who, when enacting their darkest rituals, ritually atoning for misbehavior, or otherwise communing with their Neverborn masters, will often speak in a disturbing, nigh-unpronouncably ominous tongue that seems to have all the traits of the Black Speech... until the Abyssals splatbook reveals that it's complete gibberish that doesn't actually mean anything. The demons of Malfeas (who aren't evil so much as alien, albeit in a manner that is implicitly dangerous to other beings) speak Old Realm, the same native language used by the gods and The Fair Folk, albeit apparently with a distinctive accent and somewhat offputting vocabulary.
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Black Speech / int_5e16d550	comment	Forbidden Magic in Black Clover is seen as this. The subs don't even bother to translate the name of the spells. When Zagred speaks his native tongue from the Underworld while using one of his spells, he utters a bunch of utterly incomprehensible sounds that the subs translate as "â”˜â–‘â•£â•©â”�â”¤". The resulting spell summons an Eldritch Abomination that devours the magic and life force of those unfortunate enough to touch it.
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Black Speech / int_5f8df2d	comment	The Ultimates (2002): When they are among themselves, the Chitauri talk with an unintelligible font. There are subtitles for the reader's convenience.
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Black Speech / int_604ed0fa	comment	Death in A.P.O.C speaks in a language that seems otherworldly, and tied to it's existence as Death. No-one can understand it, but readers may be able to decipher it with a pen and paper handy.
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Black Speech / int_608fce76	comment	It's Always The Quiet Ones: Luna performs a terrifying chant in an an alien language that makes the Wrackspurts visible to everyone.
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Black Speech / int_6104baaf	comment	The Lord of the Rings Online features the One Ring inscription (as given in the page quote) performed as a kind of faux-Gregorian chant by a choir as background music in some regions of the game (most notably in certain parts of Moria). In contrast to the normal expectations of Black Speech sounding harsh and guttural, it's much softer and gentler than the occasional scrap of Dwarven one hears in the game (usually "Baruk KhazÃ¢d! KhazÃ¢d ai-mÃªnu!").
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Black Speech / int_6572f71e	comment	In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, re-animated dead Italian soldiers initially speak one of the dialects of the Language of Hell (they were all Papists, so of course they were all damned), which is described as "...having a much higher percentage of screams than any language known to the onlookers." (Wellington approves of their having mastered it after having been dead for only three days.)
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Black Speech / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Aklo, taken from Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft, appears as the preferred tongue of various horrible creatures and Eldritch Abominations. Necril in First Edition was a mundane language often spoken in undead societies, but in Second Edition was upgraded to the true tongue of undeath. All undead creatures rise knowing it, and even mindless undead respond to commands given in the language. While living creatures are capable of learning it, doing so exposes them to the same negative influences that tend to drive even well-intentioned undead to evil over time.
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Black Speech / int_6826d077	comment	In The Shadowspawn, the lingua demonica, Mhabrogast, spoken by the vampiric-shapeshifting-sorcerer Shadowspawn race, is either the language of Hell or the operating code of the universe (maybe both).
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Black Speech / int_68a5b119	comment	In Rob Thurman's Cal Leandros novels, the language of the Auphe is impossible for humans to speak and almost impossible for supernatural beings to speak. Hearing it "feels like someone shoving ground glass in your ear." It is described as damaging the air and the universe itself whenever it is spoken.
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Black Speech / int_68a92548	comment	You'd better have the subtitles on when playing the Hirschfelden Halloween missions in theHunter: Call of the Wild, because the Roe Devil talks like this.
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Black Speech / int_691be369	comment	German, Japanese and Russian on The X-Files had mostly dark implications of post WWII and post-Cold War world.
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Black Speech / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons has a few examples: The Book of Vile Darkness has the Dark Speech, which is the language of pure evil and destruction. Speaking it can cause pain to the good and neutral creatures. By contrast, the Words of Creation are the direct opposite, and can help create things as well as bind evil power. The Warlock in 3.5 has the invocation Baleful Utterance, which duplicates the spell Shatter and can potentially deafen opponents. And yes, he does it with Dark Speech. More specifically, he does it by uttering a random syllable — the 'invocation' itself is basically a safety device that keeps the Warlock's brain from realizing what the mouth just said. Infernal and Abyssal are the native tongues of devils and demons, respectively. They have no special properties, but probably include an impressive array of curse words. In the first edition of the game, alignments had their own languages understandable only to creatures of the same alignment. When played at all, the evil alignment languages tended to get played like Black Speech. The various Eldritch Abominations have their own languages, most of which can't be spoken by the normal people due to sheer physiological difference. Take the Aboleth-ese for example: if a human wanted to speak it, they would require extra larynxes, which can be emulated by speaking while playing pipe organs. For extra creepiness: the language can be written as glyphs, which hurts one's head just by looking at it. Undercommon, a language composed of pidgin Common mixed with loaner words from languages like Deep Speech and unique jargon and slang, is the bastard brother of Common in 5e and a more mundane form of this trope. It is almost exclusively spoken by Underdark dwelling races like the Drow, Duregar, and certain other sentient races down there, but aside from its grating qualities to the ears it doesn't have the mind-blasting qualities that Abyssal, Infernal, and Deep Speech can have.
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Black Speech / int_6b09c600	comment	Dungeonmans: The dreaded Purpleonians and those awful outsiders and cultists related to them have Purple Language. It's not usually relevant to your character, but a Southern Gentlemans that's maxed out the Fire and Brimstone skill tree can use it for the most destructive Foreign-Language Tirade you can imagine: The capstone skill Blasphemous Tirade does enormous damage and knocks both enemies and items around in a huge radius, usually reducing an entire surrounding horde to a heap of corrupted meat-paste in a single move. Just be careful of overdoing it, they can hear you.
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Black Speech / int_6bc0f10a	comment	Used humorously in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) when the Vogon commander switches effortlessly from a charming Received Pronunciation accent to one of these in under a second. (In the book, Vogon speech is: "like a man trying to gargle whilst fighting off a pack of wolves".)
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Black Speech / int_6c0aaca7	comment	In Old Harry's Game, Andy Hamilton's Satan reflects that if God had wanted people to like South Africans, then He would not have designed them to speak like that. Which is why they all end up here.
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Black Speech / int_6e1d5f36	comment	The Scarrans in Farscape have one of the few alien languages that's not translated by the translator microbes—i.e. it's one of the only alien languages that we hear in all its gutteral glory.
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Black Speech / int_6e669be2	comment	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds The New Generation: At the beginning of "Horsell Common and the Heat Ray, there's an unsettling sample of some Martian dialect.
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Black Speech / int_6efe7e4b	comment	Wicked Ones: Most monsters speak a language simply referred to as the Dark Tongue. Descriptions of what this sounds like are never given, but seeing as this is a game all about playing archetypal fantasy monsters the name is almost certainly meant as a reference to this trope.
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Black Speech / int_708ae58b	comment	Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: the Insectis race. Apparently, they're bad enough when they're actually speaking English, and then you get to their actual language. According to the author, it's not evil sounding, but it is painful to listen to, like trying to form vowels with the sounds of an angle grinder.
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Black Speech / int_7110fae1	comment	Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica's Corrupted Pastalia certainly sounds like this, and the context in which it's used doesn't help.
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Black Speech / int_7146f302	comment	Gift: Little Darks and Little Clears tend to mumble something like that.
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Black Speech / int_7357234c	comment	The language of the DomZ in Beyond Good & Evil. There's even an entire song in the soundtrack with lyrics entirely in the DomZ language that plays whenever there's a full-on DomZ invasion.
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Black Speech / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Breen speak an electronic-sounding, guttural tongue. Gul Dukat summons a Pah-wraith to take possession of him by chanting in ancient Bajoran while breaking an ancient Bajoran artifact.
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Black Speech / int_76cb191b	comment	The Invisibles has a section where Miss Dwyer, a servant of the Conspiracy who's pretty much out of options, is about to let loose a string of hyperdimensional language that can give those it's directed at cancer. As the narration describes it, "Miss Dwyer is saying her prayers."
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Black Speech / int_77dde353	comment	In The Zombie Hunters, the evil-looking black Speech Bubbles and glowing white lettering of Night of the Living Mooks contains a frightening cacophany of various gutteral grunts and moans, but to half-zombie Charlie, they increasingly begin to resolve themselves into broken, rasping English, the implications of which leave the character profoundly disturbed.
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Black Speech / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	Bayonetta has Enochian, the language of angels. The Angels of Paradiso and Infernal Demons use it as their preferred tongue, while Umbra Witches and Lumen Sages use it for their magic. When the Cardinal Virtues speak it, it's creepy.
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Black Speech / int_7d5f8592	comment	The Pixel Dogs in Paranatural talk in skulls. (It's a cipher language — the skull's features can be counted up to match an English word spoken on a previous page of the comic). Forge also speaks a single word of it. This is significant, because Cursetongue is learned at the rate of one word per evil act committed by a spirit.
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Black Speech / int_7eceb06d	comment	Parodied in Fable II with the hollow man, who guards the Stone of Myr'Bregothill. They want to do the hollow dance of Ur'Cyrandoandor upon your bones...if only they could reliably remember what it's called.
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Black Speech / int_7ef13d72	comment	Invoked in Draconia Chronicles. To a dragon, the tiger language is "hideous" and "full of phlegm." Of course, they hate each other.
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Black Speech / int_7fc78282	comment	Parodied by Martin Pearson in his The Lord of the Rings-themed folk-comedy show The Unfinished Spelling Errors of Bolkien, in which he sings the One Ring's inscription to the tune of "King of the Road" in a voice that borders on an Elvis impression. Similarly parodied in Eben Brooks' "Hey There Cthulhu", where the above quote from "The Call of Cthulhu" is sung to the tune of "Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White Ts. "Cthulhu fhtagn" has also been filked to the tune of "Hakuna Matata".
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Black Speech / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: If you're going to speak Klingon, have a glass of water handy. Your throat will thank you. Though its stint as a more-or-less purely evil language was a short one (the Klingons didn't stop speaking Klingon just because they allied with the Federation. If anything, it meant that our Federation main characters spoke more Klingon, sometimes even as part of recreational activities!) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Breen speak an electronic-sounding, guttural tongue. Gul Dukat summons a Pah-wraith to take possession of him by chanting in ancient Bajoran while breaking an ancient Bajoran artifact. When Tholians are shown in Enterprise (their ships were seen in the Original Series, but not the occupants), their untranslated speech sounds like lava flowing and cracking. Apropos, since their bodies are quartz-like and they find the melting point of lead pleasantly warm.
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Black Speech / int_81f5d35d	comment	The Kamen Rider series has a few examples, such as the languages of the Grongi and Undead. Additionally, we see the Imagin language written but not voiced, and the Fangire tongue is long-forgotten and only spoken by Sagarc, Kamen Rider Saga's high-voiced, living Transformation Trinket, which makes it sound less than imposing. Ordinarily, the Overlords talk in an incomprehensible language, too, but they're also perfectly capable of speaking Japanese later.
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Black Speech / int_84986bf9	comment	Mentioned in RuneScape with the note dropped after defeating one of the early Dungeoneering bosses. During a quest, the player is tasked with retrieving a magic artefact known as the "Frostenhorn". Azzanadra clarifies that the Fremennik gave it that name because they assumed it had powers over ice (it didn't); when asked what his race calls it, Azzanadra politely declines to answer and replies that speaking its true name would make the player's ears melt from the sides of their head.
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Black Speech / int_86616890	comment	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor features The One Ring inscription sung as Ominous Latin Chanting. Meanwhile, the sequel features actual Black Speech being spoken by some characters (without translation, to the consternation of some who no longer understand it.) Amusingly the game suggests that Black Speech ia a major hassle to learn. Ratbag can't speak a word and even as one of the smarter denizens of Mordor Bruz off-handedly mentions he can't speak a word, calling the language a pain in the ass. A Balrog named Tar-Goroth speaks in a very guttural language separate from black speech (which doesn't have subtitles) so nobody (except maybe Celebrimbor) have any idea what the hell he's saying, Talion even asks what Tar-Goroth is saying to which Celebrimbor replies "Does it matter?"
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Black Speech / int_8a40eb2b	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_8a40eb2b	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has Gandalf read the inscription on the One Ring in Black Speech. His voice becomes inhumanely deep, resonant and guttural, and the light seems to recede as he speaks. Frodo and the elven nobility recoil in pain as they hear it.
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Black Speech / int_8f8c88cf	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_8f8c88cf	comment	In Ella Enchanted, the Prince's reaction to Ella's simple farewell in troll language is, "It sounds evil." Ella replies that it is.
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Black Speech / int_91500502	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_91500502	comment	"The Call of Cthulhu" has several languages spoken by cultists which sound and look disturbing, thanks to being adaptations of Starfish Language to human vocal apparatus. It contains arguably the most famous snatch of this trope outside of Tolkien: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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Black Speech / int_91af902c	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_91af902c	comment	Pathfinder (1987): The heroic Saami speak Saami and the evil, invading Tshud speak influenza.
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Black Speech / int_91afe1ca	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_91afe1ca	comment	Pathfinder (2007) has the good guys speaking English and the invading Vikings speaking Icelandic, but in a very guttural fashion.
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Pathfinder (2007)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_91afe1ca
Black Speech / int_9431bab8	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_9431bab8	comment	Sleepy Hollow: Moloch speaks in a guttural, inhuman language.
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Sleepy Hollow	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_9431bab8
Black Speech / int_9983eff5	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_9983eff5	comment	Captive State: Legislator language consists of guttural clicks, shrieks, and angry howling.
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Black Speech / int_99e49e94	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_99e49e94	comment	Bug Fables: In the Forsaken Lands is an abandoned town that was once a temporary settlement for Elizant I and her ant settlers. The place is currently inhabited by strange bugs wearing masks and cloaks whose speech bubble text is made of pulsating, scribble-like blotches. Given that the False Monarch "ruling" these bugs is actually a cluster of Mothflies, it's left ambiguous if they were ever speaking anything comprehensible in the first place.
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Black Speech / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Some examples from A Song of Ice and Fire: The language of the ice demons known as the Others is unpronounceable for humans and sounds like scratching of ice. The Asshai'i language is heavily associated with dark magics. It sounds only twice in the series and is described as "shrill and ululating". The ancient Ghiscari language was spoken in the local sandy despot land a long time ago; at the time of the books, it was reduced to merely an accent bleeding through Valyrian spoken by the Ghiscari. Even in this reduced form it still sounds harsh and barking, and people joke that you have to put a bee into your nose to speak like a Ghiscari. Rudiments of the old language survive in Ghiscari names, all of which sound like influenza.
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Black Speech / int_9fa7d06a	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_9fa7d06a	comment	Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: if Meru's cellphone is moved out of reception range/broken (she ONLY communicates by text messages), she'll snap and start speaking like this, taking an exorcism a huge crucifix to the head to stop her. The main character, KafuKa FuuRa's mother also did this from time to time, after being possessed by the devil. Forcing her to kill her own mother... it's comedy, I swear!
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Black Speech / int_a0b025d2	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_a0b025d2	comment	Some of the ghosts in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, such as Possessors and Cultists, engage in this.
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Video Game)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_a0b025d2
Black Speech / int_a3c9392	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_a3c9392	comment	In "Bandits in Your Grocer's Freezer", Pete has no idea what language the bandits speaks and describes it as being guttural and "generic villain"; having no idea if they're speaking something mundane like Mongolian, or fantastic like Orcish or Klingon.
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Black Speech / int_a70a8c77	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_a70a8c77	comment	The Molvanian language as described in MolvanÃ®a, A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry is supposed to have a highly irregular grammar and difficult pronunciation, often requiring crude gestures to make simple phrases intelligible. Readers are advised: "Due to the abundance of guttural phonetic sounds found in the spoken language, non-native Molvanian speakers are warned about the risk of laryngeal damage that can arise from attempting anything more than a few short phrases." The real-life source is likely the Georgian languages. Try the words starting with eight consonants. But the proper way to pronounce Georgian is very lightly, so even eight consonants should not be so troublesome.
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Black Speech / int_a726bd5e	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_a726bd5e	comment	Minnie and Grim Jr. of Grim Tales from Down Below can communicate this way.
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Black Speech / int_a8150af4	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_a8150af4	comment	In The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the Orcs speak several words in the Black Speech.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_a8150af4
Black Speech / int_a825da3e	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, the language of the Phyrexians is this. A guttural-sounding tongue where harsh, unbroken strings of consonants are common, Phyrexian incorporates clanking and slashing noises into its vocabulary, making it impossible to speak properly without the extensive body modifications that Phyrexians undergo.
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Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_a825da3e
Black Speech / int_a993be1f	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_a993be1f	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Darth Nihilus speaks in a ridiculous, over-the-top evil sounding language that is completely undecipherable, and the player is never given a translation to see what he's actually saying, though it's almost certainly the ancient Sith language. Explained in-universe as the Exile's translator module not having a setting for it.
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Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_a993be1f
Black Speech / int_af6a4464	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_af6a4464	comment	The Secret World features numerous cases of this, most prominently the demonic tongue and languages touched by the Filth. Not only do they sound immensely disturbing, but they often have potentially dangerous consequences for mortals who make the mistake of listening too closely: the demonic tongue can't even be spoken by humans without first ritualistically mutilating your tongue, and translating some of the nastier threats into English runs the risk of boiling the bowels of anyone in earshot; meanwhile, people infected by the Filth can sing hymns that kill small birds and other animals in range, and a few can even reproduce the Filth as graffiti capable of infecting humans by sight alone. Subverted in the case of the Draug; their language might sound threatening and unearthly, especially given that it's being spoken by a horde of semi-decayed Fish People, all of whom have extremely deep, guttural voices. However, according to Dr Bannerman's notes, it's just Old Icelandic - a relic of the original Viking heroes who were enslaved by the Dreamers and made into the first Draug.
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The Secret World (Video Game)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_af6a4464
Black Speech / int_afecd0bd	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_afecd0bd	comment	Beowulf has Grendel speak Old English (the language in which the poem was originally written) while everyone else speaks modern English, probably to emphasize how old and monstrous he is. His mother speaks both old and current English, since she's been re-imagined as a sexy sorceress.
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Beowulf (2007)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_afecd0bd
Black Speech / int_b0133546	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_b0133546	comment	Summoning, a The Lord of the Rings-themed black metal band, went one step further by actually writing a song in the Black Speech. It's called Mirdautas Vras (trans. "A good day to kill") and it's awesome. Listen here.
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Black Speech / int_bb8b80ae	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_bb8b80ae	comment	All but one of the vampires in 30 Days of Night speak like they tore out their own windpipes. (In fact, the filmmakers took the sound of an Amazonian language and mixed in animal noises.) This is not true of the comic in which they spoke English, albeit in colored Speech Bubbles.
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Black Speech / int_bcadd7cb	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In the Warhammer 40,000 novel Ravenor Returned, the language "Ennuncia" contains words (or rather, "unwords") which, when read, can disorientate and, when spoken, tend to damage the lips and teeth of the speaker. The effect of a single word on the targeted listener is worse. A lesser word, or fragment of one:
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Black Speech / int_bcfa43ed	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_bcfa43ed	comment	The Vikings talk like this in The Secret of Kells, emphasizing how monstrous and incomprehensible they are to the people of Ireland as they pillage and raze everything they come across. The only understandable word they speak is something that sounds like "gold", which is what they're after.
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The Secret of Kells	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_bcfa43ed
Black Speech / int_bff01809	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 The Dark Tongue of Chaos, which is generally the language of daemons and sorcerers in both Fantasy and 40K. The various languages used by the Chaos-worshiping human tribes — Norse, Kurgan and Hung — also tend to be influenced by Dark Tongue to a certain extent, though they remain their own distinct languages with their own grammatical structures and so forth. The influence of Dark Tongue on these languages is mostly seen via loan-words and etymology. Norscan runic-script is also influenced by written Dark Tongue. Enuncia is a pre-human language that appears in books written by Dan Abnett for Warhammer 40 000. It can be used to control daemons and heretic engines, and damage opponents but can have terrible effects on those that speak it as well, with outcomes from bleeding from the mouth to cranial rupturing. 40K also has scrapcode, which is the Black Speech as a programming language. The Dark Mechanicus can speak it, too; it makes the already mechanical binary cant of the Adeptus Mechanicus sound so much worse.
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Black Speech / int_c0d295c4	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: The Vagineer's speech is guttural and unintelligible. It's the real Engineer's lines, albeit reversed. Numerous abominations in similar vein, known as TF2 Freaks, are often given reversed or warped versions of their real lines.
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Black Speech / int_c4282b71	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Eppaljeck sounds like someone talking sped up, backwards, and possibly in G-major. Alternately, her 'jitter' effect that causes Applejack to explode sounds like a primitive Atari-era video game, sped up to the point of uncomfortable auditory dissoance.
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Black Speech / int_c43df4d8	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_c43df4d8	comment	Minor example but in Doctor Who, the Weeping Angel that pursue the Doctor and co. begin emitting horrible, hellish shrieks not dissimilar to the sound of an animal being maimed. The sound is enough to rattle the usually confident River Song. It turns out this is the sound of their laughter.
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Doctor Who	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_c43df4d8
Black Speech / int_cbe9419f	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_cbe9419f	comment	Last Res0rt plays with this; the Tone language of the Celeste uses this as a vehicle for their Compelling Voice, but...Tone itself is completely silent, only audible to the Celeste themselves and any individuals with the appropriate level of resistance.
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Black Speech / int_cceb25de	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_cceb25de	comment	In The Locked Tomb resurrection beasts have their own tongue. Supernatural omniglot Nona reveals its existence when she comments she didn't understand what a person speaking it was talking about, surprising the others who had not realized there was any meaning behind their screaming. It's unhealthy to speak or hear.
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Black Speech / int_cd285b2d	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_cd285b2d	comment	The demons in The First Dwarf King speak in a language that is incredibly difficult for mortals to pronounce (though possible with enough effort and practice).
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Black Speech / int_cdafa8c	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_cdafa8c	comment	Magma a band who from their first gigs onwards sang mostly in an invented tongue called KobaÃ¯an, a teutonic-sounding sci-fi proto-language that went perfectly with the music, a kind of prog version of Stravinsky and Carl Orff's most paroxystic traits. They had such a natural supervillain-effect with their stage costumes and album covers that director Jodoroswky planned to have them make the background music for the Harkonnen's planet in his never-finished film version of Dune. H.R. Giger, who was to design the whole planet on screen, was later hired to make the beast and settings in Alien... Sadly, Ridley Scott didn't hire Magma.
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Black Speech / int_ce50887e	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_ce50887e	comment	In Dragon Ball, King Piccolo would speak to his minions and mind slaves in some strange tongue. Due to their mutual origin, Kami could speak to him in the same language. Retconned in Dragon Ball Z, where he's explicitly an alien and it was just his native tongue.
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Black Speech / int_d1d1b9f8	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_d1d1b9f8	comment	Second Apocalypse: The monstrous Sranc (a species genetically-engineered for rape and sadism, who serve as the Mooks) speak Aghurzoi, which means "cut tongue." The Sranc were once called Tongueless Howlers, apparently due to their tongueless speech. When the Inchoroi first crash-landed on Earwa, they spoke only the indecipherable language that the Nonmen called CincÃ»lic, "the Gasping of Many Reeds," apparently due to the Inchoroi's bizarre alien anatomy. After the Inchoroi "birthed mouths," they were able to converse with the Nonmen in their own language.
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Black Speech / int_d4c6e9c7	comment	The cultists of the Blood series speak a language which is a mixture of Latin and Sanskrit words and grammar. By Blood II: The Chosen, only Zealots and, occasionally, Ishmael still speak it, though some of the Fallen in Shogo: Mobile Armor Division also use it.
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Black Speech / int_d4e486c7	comment	Ozkavosh in Dota 2, a language mainly spoken by demons and those affiliated to them.
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Black Speech / int_d4f71db8	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_d4f71db8	comment	On World's Dumbest..., Kevin McCaffrey describes German as this.
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Black Speech / int_d4fa31cf	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_d4fa31cf	comment	FAITH has a monster in the woods named Michael who shrieks jumbled phrases when warded off.
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Black Speech / int_d56ea5ab	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_d56ea5ab	comment	Nioh 2 gives the player the ability to hear Yokai speech (justified, as the main protagonist is a half-human, half-Yokai hybrid). However, the player is unable to understand anything at the beginning of the game, as their speech is so incomprehensible that the subtitles only display red runes instead of text. It's only when you start completing missions and increasing your Astral Wisdom that the runes are slowly replaced by text.
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Black Speech / int_d77d4eb7	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_d77d4eb7	comment	In Sundered, the Shining Trapezohedron speaks in a harsh and guttural language that the player can only understand through the magic of subtitles. The written form of it, which shows up in the names of major bosses and certain areas, has a lot of apostrophes, X's, and Z's. For instance, the word "Hysteria" is translated as "X'zea'shia".
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Black Speech / int_e5da461b	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_e5da461b	comment	NieR deconstructs it. Although it seems like Black Speech on the first playthrough, on the second playthrough it turns out to be a real language, and you have the ability to understand it, leading to the game becoming a deconstruction of RPGs.
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Black Speech / int_e60d3d7a	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_e60d3d7a	comment	The predators in the Predator franchise sound like this when trying to mimic English. They may, however, just have a respiratory system set up the opposite way from a mammal one (i.e. it defaults to inhaling rather than exhaling), and thus talk while inhaling (try it). Birds' respiration works like that, which is part of why parrots and ravens squawk when they speak.
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Predator (Franchise)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_e60d3d7a
Black Speech / int_e9d7acf9	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Lone Wolf The Giak tongue, spoken by the Darklords and all of their minions in the Darklands, as well as the evil humans, the Drakkarim. Certainly looks harsh-sounding when transcribed, and is described as such. Complete with a full fictionary. Funnily, Giak seems to be the only tongue Joe Dever ever developed for his world. So if you want to immerse yourself linguistically into Magnamund, you're forced to do so with the ugly tongue (crude grammar, nasty vocabulary) of the Bad Ones' cannon fodder. Too bad. And then there's the Dark Tongue, which humans aren't even able to speak. The only ones who ever speak it in the series are the Darklords themselves. The Darklords use the Dark Tongue to summon nasties to fight Lone Wolf.
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Black Speech / int_ed3f1e4f	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_ed3f1e4f	comment	Dice Funk: Austin explicitly refers to the Abyssal language as "the Black Speech" when it is revealed that Anne understands it.
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Black Speech / int_f00d733b	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_f00d733b	comment	The New World of Darkness has the supernatural language of demons, the Dragon's Tongue. The "tortured glossolalia" is perceived differently by everyone and can only be learned through direct tutelage, though some people are unlucky enough to be born fluent. Knowing the language can be an advantage in bargaining for a pact.
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Black Speech / int_f2089262	comment	10,000 BC has the slavers speaking an incomprehensible, guttural language, and certain characters have their voices digitally distorted to make them sound inhumanly guttural.
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Black Speech / int_f481d3e4	comment	The Engineers in Prometheus were supposed to speak in a tone like this.
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Black Speech / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: The language of an ancient sinister race of Shadows consists of barely comprehensible rustle, chirps, and humming, and, in case of their living battleships, eardrum-puncturing shrieks. Although the human emissaries of Shadows can understand them (probably due to some implants), they cannot speak in Shadowish themselves. It's stated that, for example, the true name of the race is about 10,000 sounds long and is completely unutterable. Similarly, the Shadows' nemesis, the Vorlons' natural "voice" is heard as an odd combination of chimes, wind, and other electronic effects. The Shadows' servants, the Drakh, have an alien language as well, which is spoken in a whispered (and sinister) manner, much like Ralph Fiennes' rendition of Voldemort (and when they do speak English, they whisper it too).
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Babylon 5	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_f74b5f80
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Black Speech / int_f8df4747	comment	The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: The Primal Vernacular (the oldest Cybertronian language) sounds like this, especially when sung loudly in a Tetrahexian accent, which sounds like someone being violently murdered. The only beings known to still speak it are Cyclonus (the aforementioned singer) and Vos, who considers himself a "linguistic purist" and can only manage a few guttural syllables of modern NeoCybex at a time.
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_f8df4747
Black Speech / int_fbb719c5	type	Black Speech
Black Speech / int_fbb719c5	comment	Constantine (2005) briefly gives us an example of "Hell-speak".
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Black Speech / int_fbb719c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Constantine (2005)	hasFeature	Black Speech / int_fbb719c5

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Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
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Board James (Web Video) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
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Drowtales (Webcomic) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
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The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn (Webcomic) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
Too Much Information (2005) (Webcomic) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
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Yokoka's Quest (Webcomic) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
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