All about the “Minionés”, the absurd language of the Minions: is it possible to speak like them?

Minion: A villain was born broke ticket offices all over the world. The new film in the Despicable Me franchise is by far the box office in Argentina and the United States and is preparing to hit historic numbers.

In Argentina he is at ease at the top with nearly 670,000 viewers in a single weekend and in the United States and Canada he has already obtained 108.5 million dollars in the same period, not counting the holiday Monday.

Since 2010, the year it was released My favorite villain, the Minions have appeared in a total of five feature films. Based on good stories, Buster Keaton humor and excellent marketing moves, these little characters have become more popular than Tower crane and they have infiltrated the homes of many of us, be it key chains, video games, soft toys or even in the language …

Is it possible to speak like a servant? Let’s find out.

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The language spoken by Minions is only spoken by Minions. First you need to understand it. It was designed by Pierre Baraone of the directors of the films of the saga, and called you serve.

The language used by these characters is a diethat is, it is complicated, insignificant, absurd, disjointed. It is made up of onomatopoeias, single syllables and words in many languages. In the Minones there are French, Spanish, English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Filipino.

“Their language is very silly, but when you realize that’s the way they communicate, it’s a lot more fun,” Coffin told Europa Press.

The director’s explanation for making his characters speak in this way has to do with the origin of the Minions. Being immortal beings born millions of years ago, they have had the opportunity to establish relationships with people from all countries and to learn all existing languages.

The writing process is variable. Coffin adapts the words of his characters to what happens in the story and in his life as a screenwriter. For example, if you are looking at a food menu for an Italian restaurant while typing, “Italian will inevitably find its way into the script”.

The Mental Floss site went further and investigated some peculiarities of the Minions. Many of them are interesting.

For example, they pointed out that the Minion language is not constructed from singular letter sounds, but from syllables complete with vowels and consonants.

Also that it is a malleable language that incorporates a certain “infantile” babble and that onomatopoeias are, in most cases, nouns.

Since most of the language is derived from English, Minionese has almost no inflections. There are no singular words for various verbal conjugations, nor are nouns presented with unique grammatical cases.

dictionary of servants

There are Internet users who took care of collecting and translating the Minions’ phrases so that today it is possible to talk to them. Even Coffin helped create a kind of minion dictionary.

Here, some phrases and words in Minionese:

• bye Bye
• I love you – Tulalillo I love you
• I hate you – Tatata Bala You
• Farewell – Pupei
• Thanks – Tankiu
• Sorry – Baidu
• For you – For you
• Look at you – Luk looks at you
• I’m hungry – I want banana
• One – Jana
• Two – Sweet
• Three – Yes
• How are you? – How are you?
• Kampai! – Health!
• Poka banana you! – You are so ugly!
• Tatatá bata tú !: I hate you.
• Stop the wedding! – To divorce
• Oops? – What?
• Oh! Beautiful, papagana! Tu le bella comme le papaya – Hello beautiful! You are as beautiful as a papaya.
• Putam cala muak muak? – Can you give me a kiss?
• Bee do! Bee do! Bee do! – Fire, fire, fire!
• Planachi Banana – I cook

Therefore, Is it possible to speak like a Minion?

Taking into account that Minionese is not an official language and has no limits, we could say that it is not. But with the phrases and words quoted here, two or more people can make themselves understood, No?