Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

        Regarding the Star Wars conlangs:  I read recently in one of the official
"slickmags" about the movie, that the Huttese language (the same language
used by Watto and little Anakin in the new movie, as well as Greedo back in
the original in '77) was actually heavily based on a natlang.  The
language's name is (IIRC) Catua, and it's a native Inca language.  If it's
still in use today in the Andes, I'm not sure, but that _is_ the ultimate
source for the language that Lucas calls Huttese.

     -- Chris


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