In Happy Home Designer and New Horizons, villagers can sing along to airchecks with the same syllables/lyrics as K.K. In New Leaf, Kapp'n sings in Animalese, and sings different syllables to correspond with the lyrics of each of his songs. only uses seven syllables to create his "lyrics": "na", "mi", "kwe", "oh", "now", "ow", and a softer "mi". Bossa is sung in Animalese but given subtitles. This is true even in the film Dōbutsu no Mori, where K.K. Slider will always sing in Animalese, even if one of the two alternate languages has been chosen in the options. Sad villagers speak with a low tone of voice, happy ones with a higher pitched voice and angry or annoyed villagers will speak with a louder voice. The sound of Animalese differs slightly in each game.ĭepending on the villager's mood, their voice will change pitch or volume. Happy, sad, or angry villagers will have a different pitch to Animalese. If the text is sped up, the Animalese also speeds up, sounding more highpitched. Different characters will have higher or lower voices. Cranky villagers have a lower, rougher pitch than a villager with a normal or peppy personality. Pelly, Tom Nook), and one-day visitors to the town ( Gracie, Wendell, etc.), will have different pitches to Animalese. Players other than the main one also speak in Animalese when spoken to at their home in the Happy Home Showcase in New Leaf and dream islands in New Horizons.ĭifferent personalities (such as cranky or snooty), animals with jobs in the town (ex. However in New Leaf and New Horizons, the player's keyboard is spoken in Animalese rather than a clear language, although some letters still sound similar. In City Folk, the letters on the keyboard say the name of the letters in the chosen language when pressed. There are 92 Animalese phonemes in total 69 corresponding to kana, 18 corresponding to sounds and letter names that can't be approximated with kana, 10 corresponding to the ten Arabic numerals, and 5 sung. For each symbol, the corresponding syllable sound is played, whereas in English Animalese consists of spellings of each letter as each letter can be pronounced differently in the English language. In Japanese, Animalese is more clear and easy to understand as Japanese kana characters each represent one syllable from Japanese speech. However, in the Japanese versions of the original game ( Animal Forest, Animal Forest+, and Animal Forest e+), Animalese consisted of more natural-sounding voices for each character of Kana and Kanji (in Animal Forest e+) is spoken than in English.
In the original international release of Animal Crossing, the Animalese was changed to a series of computer-generated voices that could be downloaded on Mac computers as a text-to-speech voice. However, much of Animalese is completely unintelligible unless slowed down. Laughing and similar sounds are also discernible. The name of the player and the name of the town can be clearly discerned as well, although they may also be mispronounced depending on the way each letter of the word is said in Animalese. Orville pronounces "Alright" as "Toh".) When villagers say numbers, they will talk rather clearly, like when the player is typing a letter. "Animal Crossing" would be pronounced "Ah-ni-ma ku-ro-si-n-gu), along with more direct substitutions that don't correspond to spelling (i.e. In most cases, each word spelled is approximated using the closest-sounding Japanese syllable (i.e. Animalese is the default spoken language of villagers and other characters in the Animal Crossing series.