Al Bhed Translator
Translate English to Al Bhed and back, the cipher language of Spira from Final Fantasy X. Oui = You. Instant, accurate, and true to the game.
About Al Bhed
Al Bhed is the language of Spira’s machina-loving outcasts in Final Fantasy X, and secretly one of gaming’s cleverest tricks. It isn’t a new vocabulary at all, but a substitution cipher of English: swap the right letters and “Oui” becomes “You”.
In the game you collect 26 Al Bhed Primers to gradually understand Rikku’s people. Here you can skip straight to fluency: Krunes applies the exact cipher from the game, preserving capitals and punctuation, in both directions.
- The cipher maps E→A, H→R, O→U… which is why “you” becomes “oui”.
- In Japanese versions, Al Bhed is a kana-substitution cipher instead.
- Vowels map to vowels and consonants to consonants, keeping Al Bhed pronounceable.
- “Fryd ec drec?”, decode it with the translator above.
The Al Bhed Key, A to Z
Hover or tap any letter to study it. This chart is the full key used by the translator above.
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