Re: Ewok=Tagalog?

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Eric Christopherson 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?
Several chunks of Ewok is simply modern Tibetan, for example, where
they're worshipping C3P0 -- it's just a recording of a Tibetan prayer (I
forget which one, but I can find out if people need to know).

Kenji