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Another method used is to forgo the actual meaning of the script and pick characters based on how closely they resemble the Latin letters. However, this order is not the only way in which the developers apply the scripts to in-world text. Scripts that are decipherable have each fictitious letter correspond to the letters of the Latin alphabet this is referred to as "deciphered" when talking about occurrences of these scripts in the game. When characters do appear consistently enough to be considered a script, it has been discovered that many of those are decipherable.

This is often the case with company logos for example, where the letters appear to be unique to the logo design and don't show up anywhere else. What we call a script is a consistent set of characters that is used in a sufficient number of places throughout the game, as opposed to characters that are not used recurrently which are not considered a script. Ultimately, it is made up of entirely fabricated words. Speech-wise, Inkling speech does not seem to possess any deeper meaning that would correspond to the species' written language, aside from certain voice clips resembling Japanese or English words at times. Across the games, numerous fictitious scripts used in the game's world can be observed, ranging from unique glyphs to ones resembling human scripts like Japanese, Arabic and Cyrillic.