
Thats why Autobots and Decepticons couldnt speak the language of the Primes, or read it, because it seems, in the comics as in the movies, it was already a long forgotten language that the Autobots and Decepticons never used.Ĭlick to expand.It's also done from a production standpoint to make the Autobots more humanized and friendly and the Decepticons more alien and mysterious. This makes sense and its something plausible, considering the Primes were some kind of Cybertronian deities, different to the rest of beings on Cybertron. If a Prime addressed other Cybertron inhabitants, he would speak to them in Cybertronian, not in the language of the Primes. It seems the language of the Primes was only spoken by them, and they gave the rest of Cybertronians the language they had. They didnt know the language of the Primes. But how could they not speak the language of their own race and planet? It's completely absurd. They said they learned Earth's languages thru the It's just a device used in the movies to relate the Autobots to the audience, maybe they could have added some scenes of them speaking Cybertronian but they didnt think it was needed. His reaction shows he knew their origin but not how to read them.Īlso, about why the Autobots speak only english in the movies.that's not because they didnt speak Cybertronian. Even Jetfire says that "I know them" about the Glyphs, he never says he can read them. The Decepticons at least had the Fallen to read the Glyphs for them, the Autobots.no one. Also, in the prequel comics to DOTM, it is shown that Optimus didnt know how to read them, not even the Glyph that meant Prime.

Makes no sense in some ways, as the Autobots also have glyphs carved in their bodies, such as Optimus Prime, but that is something done by the power of the Allspark it seems. But the Decepticons had a bit of more knowledge about them. It was the language of the Primes, and as it seems, neither Autobots nor Decepticons knew how to read them. Specially in the Cybertronian Glyphs.Ībout what the first two posters discussed, in ROTF a Decepticon was needed because they had info about the Glyphs, but not even them could read them.


I really liked Cybertronian in the moves, it was shown in an awesome way.
