Thinking about Dean Koontz watchers on this one.
The dog had human intellegence but thanks to lacking a human tongue, vocal cords, teeth, or lips couldn't pronounce human words.
Now what about a werewolf when in its half form or fully wolf form.
Should it be able to talk? and if yes how so and to what degree?
Gutteral talk, whine talk "like that dog that was tought to pronounce words", or growl talking.
Or talk just like a person.
I can see strained talking, deep growl talking.
But if it could talk clearly despite the limits to mouth and throat how?
Now I might end up being accused of trying to turn werewolves into birds now..
think of a parrot, it pronounced words despite not having a human tongue, lips, or teeth. Becuase it has a very special set of vocal cords that can imitate most sounds.
Now if a werewolf had these kinds of vocal cords it could easily imitate human speech (and would save us the horror of seeing a werewolf pucker its mouth to pronounc O sounds.) just normal up and down mouth movements with clear human words.
and would add to them a new ability, sound mimicry to imitate other animals or people to either lure prey or evade search.
"I actaully had this thought reading a story on castle of spirits by someone who while in Germany encounterd a strange dog creature that had been imitating the sound if their baby crying out side the baby's window" and I had to think, is this how a werewolf can also talk then? like a parrot?
when I look in the mirror what looks back isn't always my reflection.