dragonball It evolves as a story as time goes by. That is normal. It happens with any development of adventures. In the first place, the threats are local, then, with the increase in powers, new challenges are presented until we reach what we see today: 12 different universes, in which we don’t even know what we are going to find.
Today the fight against Tao Pai Pai at the foot of Master Karin’s tower. But at the time it was brutal and we came to fear for Goku’s life. In that progress, new threats were arriving until we saw the first alien: Piccolo.
Not knowing that he came from another world (later they expanded his development in the Frieza arc of Dragon Ball Z), the character communicated completely normally with the rest of the Z Fighters.
The same thing happened with the Saiyans and Frieza’s army. someone will have wondered Why are they able to speak normally? The doubt grows when we even get to know characters from other universes and communication flows with almost all the characters.
Akira Toriyama explains communication in Dragon Ball from the beginning
In the last arcs of Dragon Ball, when we meet Piccolo, son of the Demon King, we see that he combines a pair of languages. At first he wasn’t given much importance, but that same language resurfaced in the Frieza arc.
The Emperor of the Universe, while holding a threatening dialogue with the namekuseí, they speak in their mother tongue and he tells them to speak in the universal language.
The portal extra life He cites a text from Dragon Ball Compendium 4 (one of the series guides) in which Akira Toriyama acknowledges that in Universe 7 alone there are more than 7,000 languages. We see it in the different locations in which the adventures take place.
There are names in English like Capsule Corporation or Kame House. But there are also words written in Chinese or Japanese, like kanji.
However, for the ease of communication, Akira Toriyama had already determined that everyone should be fluent in their base language and the universal language.
“Regarding the language, apart from the Namekian, their mother tongue, it is also confirmed that they are fluent in the universal language, which is the language used throughout the universe, including Earth,” reads the guide quoted by the aforementioned portal. .
