Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

Nik Taylor wrote: "I'd never noticed any similarity between Huttese and
English, but now that you point it out, perhaps so.  I'll have to rewatch
it.  But if so, it's quite distinct from English."

Interestingly, some words seem to be Malay. "Great Chewbacca" is said by
Jabba as "wangi Chewbacca;" 'wangi' is Malay for 'big, great.' I was also
told long ago that the Ewoks are speaking a New Guinean language ... Hm.

BB
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