What language do you headcanon the cattle children speak as their primary language?
Dutch
French
English
German
Irish
Japanese
Spanish
The language varies by farm.
All the farms speak the same language, but they have different dialects.
All the farms have English as their primary language of communication, but…*
I don't have general headcanons for the farms as a whole, but…**
Other nuanced opinion (share in the reblogs/replies)
Voting ended onMar 24, 2025
*All the farms have English as their primary language of communication, but each farm has a different secondary language they also teach.
**I don't have general headcanons for the farms as a whole, but I headcanon specific human characters as multilingual besides Ayshe and Norman speaking the old demon language (share in the reblogs/replies)
Headcanon and not canon because it's more interesting and because for simplicity sake's I think Shirai would say everyone living in the demon world speaks and writes in English by default for reasons below the cut:
• The Western setting was chosen to intentionally make the anachronistic aspects of the farms feel more natural:
(Mystic Code Book Chapter 1)
• The majority of the legible text shown not related to the original faith is in modern English in the Japanese raws for both humans and demons (them using international Morse code and sounding it out in English as opposed to using Wabun, the signs in Goldy Pond being in English) due to Shirai writing for a modern audience:
(Chapter 1 | 4 | 17 | 41 | 52 | 57 | 64 | 65)
However, Shirai's never said other languages weren't formally taught at Grace Field besides Latin:
(Mystic Code Book Chapter 4 Q&A)
And even if the children were being taught to the tests for commentary on standardized testing, you could argue the kids could learn on their own time if language books are classified under the arts based on the first light novel's description of the library's contents:
(TPN Light Novel 1: A Letter from Norman - “The Day Emma Cried”)
With the issue of "why didn't Ray ever bring up learning other languages after reading all the books in the library?" coming down to the same reason as this:
(Mystic Code Book Chapter 6 Q&A)
He just never brought it up. _(:△」∠)_
Also to promote @puff-poff's demon culture posts (found here and here):
