So does malphite speak something that sounds like english? What exactly is language in runterra anyway. Xayah and Rakan understand eachother but do Xayah and Nautilus understand eachother? does anyone even understand Shaco?[sg-ahri-1]
Runeterra has many languages, it's just that everything (except for a few select quotes that are meant to demonstrate the Runeterrans' various tongues) is translated into English for the sake of convenience.
Most champions probably wouldn't understand each other. Interactions are necessarily hypothetical, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Maybe it's like anime Everyone there speaks Japanese by simply speaking their language If you know what I mean
Just like in our world, different places have different languages in Runeterra.
Xayah and Rakan come from the same region in Ionia, so they most likely speak the same language. But Nautilus would probably not be able to communicate properly with Xayah, since Bilgewater and Ionia are seperated.
We got examples of the different languages through teaser videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpfHB1LU80&t=110s Urgot's login has the sons of Ur chanting in the background. They are using an old Noxian dialect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e47AEBnu9SQ While the text is in English, the song itself is sung in a different language. We got told that this is how ancient Freljordian sounds like.
I hope we will get examples for the Piltovian/Zaunite tongue some time in the future.
