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Originally, golems were unable to speak, and instead carried around a slate and chalk with which they wrote down whatever they wanted to say.

Near the conclusion of Feet of Clay, Dorfl is rebaked with a tongue and gains the ability to talk.

Since then, numerous other golems, especially free ones, have also been given voices.

Like Death, those golems capable of speech have a distinctive mannerism ; whereas Death's speech is represented by being printed all in small caps, transcriptions of golem speech capitalize the first letter of every word.

When Golems write, their script is a corrupted version of the Hebrew alphabet altered to appear as Latin letters, which is possibly a reference to golems ' origins in Jewish mythology.

Golems also have their own language which is " said to be spoken by angels ", and uses the Enochian alphabet.