Re: Ewok=Tagalog?

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?
Yep.  Most, if not all, of the Star Wars langs were just human languages
spoken backwards, or something like that.