“You went to so much trouble to learn their Language, but they didnt bother to learn yours?”
 
…This is almost like why all the countries of our world ask everyone to learn English as requisite to travel around the world.

@PonyPon  
It stands to reason. I mean, every time we’ve seen the yaks hanging out with ponies, they’ve mostly been speaking broken Ponish. I guess Rutherford and a few others studied their language for the sake of communication, but the others stay quiet because they don’t know any Ponish at all.

@cheezedoodle  
@Dustcan
 
I think the closest we got to that were the breezies, given that they’ve got their own language and only Seabreeze knows how to speak Ponish.

@cheezedoodle
 
The closest we got is Zecora. And that was just ponies getting plussed by her speech patterns rather than language (even though she apparently does speak a different language).

@Background Pony #5099  
It’s a shame the show never actually had a language barrier episode. That would have been a great opportunity for a real-world lesson.
 
I think it’s reasonable to conclude that each species has its own language and it’s normally used when dealing with their own kind.

@Scintilla Aquila  

 
Best Gift Ever and probably Not Asking for Trouble, too.

@cheezedoodle  

Why not yakety yak? The only language that doesn’t permit backtalk.

In my Equestria D&D rules I delineated several languages spoken in Equestria, glad to see somebody in the canon is thinking along similar lines.
 
 
@PonyPon  
It must be called Yakyak.

So, I’m not the only one who wondered if there even is a Yak language? I mean, it would make sense, but there’s never been even a hint of such in either the show or the comics before this.

I always had assumed that the yaks’ quirks of grammar etc. were due to Ponish being a second language for them and we just never hear their own language to keep things simple for the target demographic.
 
I mean, is there ever a case in the show when yaks are talking amongst themselves without any ponies present, outside of flashbacks conveyed to a pony audience? I don’t think they’ve had a reason/opportunity to bust out another language yet.

would’ve been interesting if every species had there own language instead of just a quirk like rhyming or speaking in the first person

But everyone in Equestria seems to speak English so what’s exactly the problem?

@MadVillain  
Thinking back, I think that the only group who spoke a different language were the breezies – everyone else just uses the same universal tongue, which is still called Ponish for some reason.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
Don’t forget the dragons whom until recently Ponies knew almost nothing about speaking their language. Even ancient dragons like Dragon Lord Torch somehow still knew their modern language despite being around since ancient Ponish.

@PonyPon  
On the one hand, it would make sense for there to be.
 
On the other, the show has always had it that everyone in the world speaks the exact same language – even people like the yaks and kirin, who were isolated from all outside contact for centuries, speak the same language ponies do.

Is there even a yak language?