(Replies to recent suggestions can be found near the bottom, right above credits!)
Slugspeak is a constructed language made to imagine how the slugcats of Rain World would speak if they had a proper native language.
The language is inspired by Slugsign, a slugcat sign language made by Bitsbug on Tumblr. It was then adapted into a proper spoken language by Silver (Mr. Gourmand) of the Rain World: Animated Discord server. Since then, the language has been growing and growing. Our goal is to allow this small conlang to develop and become a real, fully usable language!
**Due to some issues with synonyms, reverse translation may not always be fully accurate. It is still available for rough translations, though!
IMPORTANT: it should be known that Slugspeak is intended to be used in ways the translator cannot explicitly tell you. I intend to write a document explaining this in detail, but have not yet. In short, there is more to this language than its base translations.
[As a quick example, the suffix -g can be appended to any existing word to make it derogatory (eg. Wawavow > Wawavog). Yes, this means you can use pretty much anything as an insult as long as you add a ‘g’ at the end.]
IMPORTANT: When translating English to Slugspeak, do not use articles (a/an/the) in sentences! Slugspeak does not use articles, so attempting to translate them will not work!
For example, if you want to say “I am a slugcat,” you will have to write it as “I am slugcat.” Think Russian grammar!
Note: I would not recommend using the “Create random sentence” button, as that will use words which slugcats would not realistically use (cabinet, for example) and would thus not have a translation for.
Although, if you do use that and come across a more common word that doesn’t translate, please do leave a suggestion!
And yes, I do read and consider all of your suggestions, so please stop spamming the suggestion box with “teach us Slugspeak swears,” S0LAR.
The F-word is howfa, the S-word is feg, and you can find the slur against purposed organisms by simply typing “slur” into the translator. Happy?
Major updates: [8/20/24 - Translator released] [8/20/24 - Plurals added for most nouns] [8/21/24 - Fixed that pesky capitalization issue] [8/21/24 - added colors, numbers, and plenty more words] [9/11/24 - added ~50 new words, changed some words] [9/29/24 - added numbers 6-19, several new words, and more Iterator names] [2/27/25 - added names for uniquely-named lizards, and more colors] [1/16/26 - Fixed that OTHER pesky capitalization issue!] [5/21/26 - Fixed that THIRD pesky capitalization issue! I swear this is the last one] [6/11/26 - Overhauled the grammar rules for plant-related words and added several new ones] [10/15/26 - Added words for: mine, yours, theirs, to, from, on - Yes, I’m counting this as major. These are important words!!]
Replies to recent suggestions below!
Citizen, neuron and mark of communication are all under consideration! Citizen will be a bit hard to figure out but we will find a way! The other two I intend to implement when I get a chance.
Names !!!
For Slugspeak names (or specifically scug titles like Survivor), you would take what they’re known for (in this case, surviving, so ‘wavof’) and append the ‘ow suffix at the end (so Survivor would be Wavof’ow).
Similarly, Saint would probably translate to something like ‘Ascender,’ so Wovofniw’ow.
~ Credits ~
Rain World by Videocult
Slugsign by Bitsbug (Tumblr)
Slugspeak by Mr. Gourmand & Popsicle (Discord)
Slugspeak translator by Popsicle (Discord)
Big thanks to Pid (Discord) for creating Rain World: Animated and allowing this to happen!
Last updated: 10/15/26
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