Theoretically, could all Pokémon learn to speak?

Obviously, Meowth of Team Rocket and even Copycat’s Dudou (and let’s not forget Chatot!) proved that Pokémon are capable ofspeaking. But are they capable ofunderstandingthe human language? Meowth seems to be the only Pokémon so far that actually understands what it’s saying.

That’s what I’m wondering. Could there be a time where all Pokémon learn to talk, and above that, understand what they’re saying? If you taught a few to speak, would they teach others around them and their offspring until it continues to the point where you can step out of your house and a Pidgey says ‘hey, how’s it going?’ in sort of an evolution?

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I wouldn’t think so. Pokemon are like animals, and animals do not carry the same type of intelligence that humans do. There’s a reason animals are not called “intelligent life” like humans are - their forms of cognition are different, and I believe that this difference would render a talking Pokemon teaching these things to another Pokemon unlikely to be feasible.

If this answer isn’t good enough or doesn’t answer your question, I don’t know if there is one suitable enough.

Like in Pokémon anime terms, the solution would be Arceus or Mewtwo giving all Pokémon the power of speech. Even unknown and magnemites could probably use sign language. I don’t know if all Pokémon can learn to speak, some Pokémon probably wouldn’t want to speak.

It seems like legendary Pokémon can speak, either with their mouths or telepathically.

So theoretically in the Pokémon world, some, most of even all Pokémon could speak.(Basically if the same way humans could fly if god said “let all humans fly”, it’s just Arceus being “let all Pokémon speak”).