Tuesday, January 6, 2009

I understand Ewok!




"The Ewoks of the forest moon of Endor speak a "primitive dialect" of one of the six million other forms of communication that C-3PO is familiar with, although what this language was is unknown. Ben Burtt, Return of the Jedi’s sound designer, created the Ewok language.[4] According to Burtt, in Bantha Tracks #17 August 1982: "For the Ewoks, I was inspired by a recording on a BBC documentary of an elderly woman speaking Tibetan. It was very high-pitched and sounded like a good basis for Ewokese to me. Eventually then, what evolved was a pidgin, or double talk version of words from Tibetan, Nepali and other Mongolian languages [sic, neither Tibetan nor the Nepali language are Mongolian or even Altaic languages] Huttese was created by the same process." Some have noted that certain phrases uttered by the Ewoks are in real languages sampled from Earth, such as Tagalog (Philippines), and Swedish : "Ayun! Puno daw 'ito!" (When C3PO is being worshipped) means: "There! This is the leader!" in Filipino. Also, "Wala na, wala na, patay," said when an Ewok was killed, means "No more, no more, dead."

from this Wiki article

1 comment:

Vida said...

Very interesting!