Re: Ewok=Tagalog?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 28, 1998, 2:49 |
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On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:53:42 -0600, Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
wrote:
>This is kind of off-the-wall, but then so is the suggestion that
>Klingon is a relex of Mingo. A friend of mine on IRC claims that the
>Ewok language from the Star Wars series seems to be a modified
>Tagalog. She allegedly picked out a few Tagalog phrases in the movie.
>Also, her friend said that many of the alien languages were real
>languages modified a bit. Anyone have any info on whether any of this
>is true?
The language spoken by Greedo in the original Star Wars was supposedly
based on Quechua, and I believe the Ewoks' language was based on Nepali, =
or
some language in that part of the world, but I don't remember which one. =
Of
course, there might have been bits of Tagalog mixed in with Nepali or =
other
languages.