Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

R. Nierse wrote:
>
>Could it be Quechua? That's the name of the language used by the Inca's as
>a lingua franca in the Andes and it is still spoken there. I will see (and
>hear) the movies in a different perspective now. Since I learned that
>language I am curious if I can discover some Quechua words in the frases of
>Jabba.
>
     No, I double-checked the language is actually called "Catua", at least
according to the magazine I read.  They could very well be related, both
being Inca/Andes languages, but they're apparently not the same.

        The article also said that the Huttese language is only mildly based on it:
  they found an audiotape of a person speaking Catua, wrote down some of the
words phonetically, and apparently put them together randomly from there.
So I don't know how much of a grammatical system there is to Huttese -- it
might very well be random.

                -- Chris


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