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  Star Wars
Star Wars is the name of a movie (now called A New Hope), based on the ideas of writer/director George Lucas, which has had numerous prequels, sequels, and literary adapatations.
Star Wars is an outstanding example of the space opera sub-genre of science fiction.
Many Star Wars fans first saw the films as children, and their (for the time) revolutionary special effects and simple, Manichean story made a profound impact.
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 Languages in Star Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fictional universe of Star Wars is a multilingual one, in which it is common to have either a passive or active fluency of many multiple languages from numerous alien races and cultures.
Many interspecies conversations in the Star Wars universe are multilingual, with the humans usually speaking Basic and the non-humans speaking their own or a regional language although many humans are generally familiar with non-human languages even if they do not speak it as goes the same for the non-humans.
In A New Hope, for instance, the language spoken by the character Greedo in conversation with Han Solo (in the cantina) is actually a simplified version of Quechua, an indigenous language of the Andean region of South America.
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 Star Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Star Wars is the name of a series of science fantasy movies, a literary franchise, and a series of video games based on the ideas of filmmaker and writer George Lucas, which consist of numerous prequels, sequels, and literary adaptations.
Star Wars stresses the self-destructive nature of anger and hate, summed up in Yoda's words ("Fear is the path to the dark side: fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering") as well as placing one's feelings for certain people aside.
Star Wars was also a daily newspaper comic strip from 1979 to 1984, for the bulk of its run written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Al Williamson.
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 Languages - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Binary, or Droidspeak, is a language of beeps, trills, and whistles spoken primarily by astromech droids such as R2-D2.
The Hapan language is spoken by residents of the Hapes Cluster.
Huttese, the language of the Hutts, is popular among criminals, especially in the (considerable) sections of the galaxy where the Hutt criminal network is powerful.
starwars.wikia.com /wiki/Languages   (824 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - Alien languages
However, I have found two short passages, one at The Sound Design of Star Wars, and the other at Languages in Star Wars that indicate that some languages are based on those spoken by small groups of humans.
Star Wars is just the opposite, a pure fantasy, set in a vague Galaxy Far, Far Away, Long Ago.
I don't make-up languages for my SW aliens, but I find that this website is pretty handy when it comes to translating some of the already established languages in the Star Wars universe.
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 Amazon.ca: Star Wars Trilogy: Video: Richard Marquand,Mark Hamill,Harrison Ford,Carrie Fisher,Billy Dee ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Star Wars trilogy had the rare distinction of becoming not only a series of movies, but a cultural phenomenon, a life-defining event for its generation.
Still, the Star Wars trilogy was one of the last remaining DVD Holy Grails, and only the most stubborn won't welcome its release.
Star Wars was designed as cheap, classic sci-fi, which is why it was so successful.
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 DVD.net : Star Wars Trilogy Box Set - DVD Review
The Characters of Star Wars looks at all the main characters within the trilogy, what they originally began as in their concepts, how they evolved and how the actors brought them to life on the big screen.
The Force is with Them: The Legacy of Star Wars brings in a lot of big name movie directors discussing how Star Wars singled handedly changed their way of making movies in the space of a couple of hours.
EOD begins by summing up what the original Star Wars movie did for the culture of America and the world at the time and how movies forever changed with this low budget idea from an independent director.
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 Rolling Stone : The Force Behind Star Wars
Before Star Wars was released, Dykstra told an interviewer that the final battle sequence would be every bit as exciting as The French Connection car chase.
On Star Wars we had over 950 people working for us and I would tell a department head and he would tell another assistant department head, he'd tell some guy, and by the time it got down the line it was not there.
In Star Wars I really wanted to get into the robots and their problems in life; a little equal time for robots, who have taken a lot of shit over the years and have never really had a chance to prove themselves.
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 Star Wars Domain |
This is a language that is never spoken in the movies, but is in writing in them.
Huttese is a language spoken by the Hutts in the Star Wars universe.
You can hear the dialague in many of the Star Wars episodes throughout the saga, mainly during the scenes on Tatooine.
www.freewebs.com /swdomain/starwarslanguages.htm   (408 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Star Wars: the Canadian angle
When the DVD version of Star Wars goes on sale Sept. 21, it will be snatched up by millions of fans who have been waiting years for what may well be the final word on the 1977 film.
As the movie's hero, Luke Skywalker, prepares to rescue Princess Leia from the Death Star, the roguish Han Solo informs him where she is to be found in the bowels of the space station's prison.
In Johnson's view, Han Solo's directions to Luke Skywalker in the Death Star prison sequence are a reminder that Lucas has become too caught up in the moneymaking potential of his creations and lost sight of his art.
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 Star Wars: Message Boards: Model Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I'm basing my current langauge (named Bruceish after my real first name for lack of a better word) on my old language (which I made out of thoughts in my head), but it is significantly easier for humans to speak since it no longer relies on a system of tounge and throat clicks.
Date Posted: Sep 11, 2002 08:16 PM I don't think I have the patience to develop the vocabulary necessary for it to be in practical use beyond very limitied situations.
However, when it becomes a noun, adjective, or adverb, the double ff at the end is dropped and it simply becomes "aa" (the second a is said at a higer tone; this is onomonopeia at work and aa simply didn't sound right by itself,.
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 Star Wars
Star Wars is a science fantasy saga inspired from a fictional universe created by writer/producer/director George Lucas in the early 1970's.
It was originally titled Star Wars without an episode number; it works as a standalone story, although Lucas claims it was always intended to be a part of a larger saga.
Star Wars stresses the self-destructive nature of fear, anger, and hate, summed up in Yoda's words ("Fear is the path to the dark side: fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering"), as well as placing one's feelings for certain people aside.
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 Sound Design of Star Wars
Ben Burtt was a film sound buff as a child (he recorded and replayed the sound tracks of his favorite movies) Burtt enrolled at the university of Southern California's film school with the intention of becoming a director.
With a new language, the most important goal is to create emotional clarity.
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
www.filmsound.org /starwars   (1206 words)

  
 STAR WARS: Text & Graphics
languages, and the deduction of detailed grammar and translations of the available texts will be left for future consideration by other writers.
A natural language develops in such a way that the most frequently used concepts are represented by few letters, which minimises the efforts of speakers.
But it might be argued that a composite language serving a multicultural galaxy requires that no part of a text be left to inferred from unwritten context.
www.theforce.net /swtc/preq/text.html   (2441 words)

  
 Star Wars - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
(Only Star Trek has a comparable popularity in American popular culture.) However, whereas Star Trek takes a fundamentally rational, scientific view to storytelling, Star Wars has a strong 'mythic' quality to it, with individual heroes and villains in the style of Campbellian myth.
The six Star Wars movies offer the basis for which dozens of books have been written.
Comic book adaptations have been created for each of the movies, and other comic books and series of comics have been written detailing events not contained in the movies.
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 Chewbacca - Star Wars
Chewbacca (or Chewie), a fictional character of the Star Wars universe, is an 8-foot tall Wookiee and co-pilot of Han Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon.
While Chewie is perfectly able to understand the galactic-standard language Basic, he is unable to speak it due to his species' vocal structure.
In The Star Wars Holiday Special, Chewbacca has a family (wife Mallatobuck 'Malla' and son Lumpawarrump 'Lumpie') on Kashyyyk, his homeworld.
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 CNN.com - 'Star Wars' celebration in London - May 16, 2005
"Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith" is the last episode of Lucas' prequel trilogy.
They were there to open the doors to the world's first showing of the entire six-film "Star Wars" saga at the nearby UCI Empire cinema.
Meanwhile, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was giving two free public performances of the "Star Wars" score in Leicester Square Gardens.
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 The Complete Wermo's Guide to Huttese & Other Star Wars languages
There is a lot of great information about languages in the latest Star Wars Insider# 67 in the Return of the Jedi section.
In Star Wars GAMER Issue #5, there is a 4 page spread on Huttese.
Although I have background in several languages, namely French, German, and a little of this and that, I am by no means a professional linguist, nor do I have any affiliation with those that developed Huttese for Master George.
www.completewermosguide.com   (4244 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Chewbacca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Chewbacca (or Chewie), a character in the fictional Star Wars universe, is a 8-foot tall Wookiee and co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon.
He communicates with Han Solo using his own language, Wookiee, while Solo always speaks to Chewie in Basic (see Languages in Star Wars).
In the Star Wars Holiday Special, Chewbacca has a family (wife Mallatobuck and son Lumpawarrump) on Kashyyyk, his homeworld.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Chewbacca   (182 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Liam Neeson,Natalie Portman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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If you're a Star Wars fan and know the basic story and all the characters, then you will pick up on that aspect of things a lot quicker than I did, and will enjoy this movie again and again, I'm sure.
Star Wars Episode I, The Phantom Menace, easily qualifies as one of the best science fiction movies of recent years.
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 Jedi Council Forums - Question: music in star wars
I think that most other human languags are like Latin, they're dead, unless it's some backwards planet with no contact to the rest of the galaxy.
EDIT: And thanks for the info on languages, but I sort of meant "Earth" "human" languages, if you know what I mean.
All the languages are turncated one way or another from the Earth languages.
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 SongBook / Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After the first four of those books, I lost interest in the Star Wars universe as seen by authors other than Lucas, and so it remained until I spotted this album.
The choir is used to wonderful effect, at times reciting a poem by Ben Burtt (who created all the strangely effective alien languages for the Star Wars movies) which gives the whole thing a surprisingly epic, quasi-religious ambience.
The prejudice can't be avoided with the words "Star Wars" on the front cover of the disc.
www.thelogbook.com /disc/o-t/swshadow.html   (730 words)

  
 TheForce.Net - Rebel Rouser - SW Miscellaneous - Geonosis - Possible Source Material
The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid
I am, of course, a Star Wars enthusiast, as well as a student of Classics and Germanic languages at UCLA.
It can hardly be a coincidence that the runic alphabet, in which the earliest attested Germanic languages are written, is also called Futhark, because the first letters of the alphabet are F, U, Th, A, R, and K. But I just had another revelation recently about the name Anakin.
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 Entmoot - The Star Wars Saga
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 Star Wars: What's New | Latest Updates
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Star Wars: Complete Cross-Sections is scheduled for release in April 2007.
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 Star Wars Sounds Archive
Two Guys in the Cantina, Luke, and Obi-Wan - STAR WARS: A friendly, family establishment.
Obi-Wan - STAR WARS: There is a disturbance in the Force.
C3-P0 - STAR WARS?:I'm still not sure which movie this is from but the first film seems to be the best guess.
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