There was an attempt some time ago by some folks on the official Sims forums to create a comprehensive fanmade Simlish dictionary. The thread seems to have disappeared, and subsequent googling on my part has yielded very little.

So short of an official EA/Maxis-approved guide, I'd like to spearhead the research and development of The Comprehensive Guide To Simlish*. Who wants to join me? Hey, if Natasha Bedingfield can learn Simlish, so can you!



*other working titles include Learn Simlish Really Fast, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Pixel Doll Gibber-Speak and The Language of Reticulated Splines.



EDIT TO ADD: I found the thread I was looking for: click it, simmers. Some of the translations they give are hilarious.

I don't know but sometimes it sounds like the toddlers scream "daaadddayy!" lol as in daddy.

I swear my sim said "fine i'll do it" just the other day. I don't think that's what it was exactly but it was so weird.

Khan: indicates a needs failure, eg.
Robalubi khan! (teen females) I need to sit/lie down! (comfort/energy)
Khan bat'flanad! (adult females) I'm tired, damn it!

Shoo fwee? (adult females) Excuse me, but [needs failure imminent]
Houri! (adult females, usually in a whiny voice) Arrrrgh
Houstila weychrem, la? (adult females, just after putting a toddler down) Behave yourself, ok?
Prowla! (Teen/YA females) Excuse me! [there's something in the way]
Kachikaló! (YA females) See ya!
Á toutou dragghi... (adult females, while practicing speech) Now where was I?
Mogey mogey mogey (Sim politician on SBN) I am a politician and I am lying to you now

Given that the games have songs from real life artists, it may be worthwhile trying to compile the Simlish lyrics and comparing them to the English ones.

The problem with that is the lyrics appear to not only be randomized words, but there are mangled English words inserted as well.

Example from "When It All Falls Apart":
Nou hava mee dai so well [I'm having the day from hell]
Oh wooba goeen so well (Oh folee kain) [It wasn't going so well (before you came)]

Now that I think about it, "khan" could be the actual word for tired.
Robalubi khan: "Robalubi" or perhaps "roba lubi" could be teen slang. A possible transliteration is "me are tired", a kind of Simlish equivalent to lolspeak.
Khan bat'flanad: Since this is used by adults, this could easily be the grammatically correct form. "Tired am I" is likely, since bat'flanad lends itself to rendering as a verb form. Finding the stem, however, might be difficult. Bat + flan + form additive?

I just envisioned something like conjugal verbs in French, eg. se reveiller, aider, etc.

Agreed

Also sometimes when the finish their bottles it sounds like their saying all done

Would this be a ts2 simlish guid, or is it still the same simlish for ts3? I might be wrong here, wouldn't be the first time, but I think ts3 simlish sound different than ts2 simlish.

And to post #4. Reading those words made me think of the klingon language, for example this word. Kachikaló. But then again, any word that sounds like your are coughing your brains out sounds klingon to me.

*snerk* LOL

I'm going on TS2 here, since I actually don't have 3.


Some more words:
Jamoo?: (YA/teen female) Often said with an exasperated sigh, could mean "Oh, my GAWD."
Lé dahn?: (adult males, when blocked) What gives?

I was playing a new custom family and the husband was leaving for work; to my amazement (and amusement) he said something to his wife on the way out that sounded a lot like "have a good day!".

(adult female on the phone)A gem ba ist stop a lobe me: Means come fuck me my husband isn't home

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Here, have a cookie while I mop up the tea I just splurted all over my screen.

You might as well keep that mop for all the blood thats gonna be spilled when HP sees that comment.

Mmm yummy

Ghuten narb: (SBN newsreader) Good evening
You biee! (Pleasant girls on TV) You bitch!
Bloo bagoo: (YA females) Yo wusup?
Coo!: (YA females while playing on the computer) Ha!

University chant:

Bada soo la gord
Bada soo la bro
Bada babi oga
Aba donk donk donk
Gerbits, Gerbits, Vo Gerbits!

We are the champs!
We are the best!
We mean business
And stomp, stomp, stomp!
Llamas, Llamas, GOOOOO LLAMAS!

My friends and I will go around randomly shouting that. Its quite entertaining :3

I forget when the adult females use "Frammit! Haloo?!" (I think it's when they can't get passed something/someone) but to me it sounds like when I keep bumping into the sharp edge of my bed constantly.

My husband thinks I'm nuts for writing down the things my sims say, lol.

Here's my contribution to Shadoo ba Ingalo

Some things said when teaching a todder to walk:

Upsa dooska: Up you go!
Toosh tou: Come to me
Tato tati: That's the way!
oh, ma nini: oh my child!

Said when picking up a toddler to care for it:

Apo pulu! Too tapa tat: Let's go, child, time to be tended.

Grumpy females say this: legen fragen voosh na vay at random times. Could be Those frikkin gods are at it again!

Teen/YA males at the mirror checking themselves out in the say:

Ho-Lo! Cheeday! Check out this hot stud!

*nods approvingly*

NOOBOO

^ means baby, I'd assume

Nooboo does mean baby, but not just referring to an infant. "Baby/babe" as an endearment applies to the same word.

Okay, here's what I've got:

TS2:
Beg-Beg or Deg-Deg: referrs to a typical goodbye.
Eforfornine! Means something like: Whoa! or Cool!
Shun bas: since it reminded me of la bas in french I thought it was cool, but it's said whenever they raise their fingers up in the air while typing a novel. My best guess is it's like: I've got it! or I have an idea! or Duh!

Other simlish I've heard.
I have a complete sim addictive for a friend. We sometimes carry on conversations in complete and utter nonsense, it's just a matter of understand the rest of the conversation. We've developed little and just run off gibberish, since we're so good friends, we don't need words to understand what we mean. I sometimes wonder if this is the case in simlish but anyways here's some words he has said to me that he calls simlish:

Dis graw is frenchaise! (Fren shay) He says when eating my cooking. He loves my food. So it sounds like "this grub is frenchaise!" So here's a guess:
graw-food or grub.
frenchaise - fantastic or great.

Wabba-dying. A common conversation starter for him. still in translation.

I have half a mind to email Thessaly Lerner (voice artist for the teen girl in TS2) and ask her for her input.

Sims always say "woofems" when they talk to their dog, so I think it means "dog."

woofum is also used for cats, although in sims 1 Plicka was a cat.

(I liked the cats. They got rid of the flies that you could never find otherwise. Of course then you had to find where they left the dead flies and dead mice... But training them to play the piano was cute.)