Notable native speakers include Megatron (Jan-Ja, though he more often speaks in a carefully neutral accent) and Ironhide (Thetaconian).
Providing a bit of cognitive dissonance for American speakers (and vice-versa for Cybertronians dealing with folks from Louisiana), Mebionian is stereotyped as a language of brilliant scholars and scientists. With automatic translation systems set for American English, Iaconian sounds like a “Boston Brahmin” accent, Thetaconian sounds somewhere between a broad Texan and general Australian accent, Jan-Ja sounds like a more typical “Southie” Bostonian accent, and Mebionian sounds like a New Orleans “Yat” accent. Thetaconian in particular tends to have a lot of extremely extended vowel sounds and instances of dipthongization. Iaconian is stigmatized as an acrolect relative to the informal, everyday Jan-Ja patois in turn, Jan-Ja speakers are stereotyped as lazy and uneducated (they don’t even bother with proper declension! How can you know if they’re speaking in the nominative, transformative, or indicative case? Sure, they’ll tell you “It’s obvious from context”…). They are recognizable for their very extended long vowel sounds, though Mebionian tends to instead reduce short vowel sounds into guttural utterances or mere schwa sounds. They utilize a 49 character syllabary, based in part on Helexian ideograms. IACONIC (Tuniyacon Baton) languages include Iaconian (Tuniyacon), Jan-Ja (Janja), Mebionian (Chunm'bion), and Thetaconian (Tanhaedaakon).
Here’s a sample of some of the language families: The ecumenopolitan nature of Cybertron means that there are city-states and megapoli rather than countries, but geographical features and cultural isolationism in earlier history still led to some variations. Cybertron in Transformers: Earth is more properly a whole damn planet, with weather, various cultures, and different languages.
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