

For example, ‘Poulet tiki masala’ is French for the Indian chicken dish.”Įven the language is gibberish and sounds alien you can identify words from languages over the world like English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Filipino, Indonesian, and may more, if you listen to Minionese attentively. What’s great about the Minion language, while it is gibberish, it sounds real because Pierre puts in words from many languages and does the lion’s share of the Minion recordings. Minionese, still being gibberish we can spot certain words from many foreign languages.Ĭhris Renaud, co-director says, “their language sounds silly, but when you believe that they’re actually communicating that’s what makes it funnier. We can be sure that Coffin went gibberish on intention while creating the language as to make it funny. In all 3 movies, featuring minions, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2 and Minions, director Pierre Coffin has voiced the minions. Most people refer to Minionese as gibberish and nonsense, nothing like a language, just some silly phrases, designed to sound funny.

The language is known to us as Minionese, also called Banana Language. This practically-jumbled language is spoken by those little, pill-shaped, yellow fellows known to us as Minions. Now, yet another Conlang is getting into our vocabulary, which came into an existence in 2010 from a movie, Despicable Me. Here are few Conlangs known to us so far: Minionese, Language of the Minions: Origin, Vocabulary and Grammar Most of the Conlangs came to existence through movies, mostly, and like real languages, after years of use by fans and language enthusiasts. To this day, we have come across many such constructed languages or so called Conlangs developed by enthusiast and expert linguists. Not every language has been globalized but today, constructed languages are taking over the world. "You don’t understand their words, you don’t understand their grammar, but you do understand when they’re in a position of conflict, if they’re sad or if they’re happy," according to director Pierre Coffin (via The Motion Picture Association's website), who created and voices the language used by the Minions.There are thousands of languages spoken all over the world family languages, ethnic languages, tribal languages and Minionese is one of them. The English-sounding language is dubbed differently for each country in order to make the sounds somewhat familiar, despite the fact that it seems absurd. Therefore, the human characters in the Despicable Me movies can understand the generally nonsensical gibberish that the Minions speak, which is partially borrowed from various languages like French, English, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish, and German. The language was described as the "lexical version of a hearty stew, made up of words from multiple languages, expressed not only vocally, but through the Minions' physical comedy," in an article on The Motion Picture Association's website.

To answer one of the biggest questions in the Despicable Me franchise, the Minions speak a made-up language known as Minionese, sometimes additionally known as Banana Language or Minion Language.
