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> Van: Chris Peters <alpha_leonis@...>
> 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.
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.
Rob