# Alien/made-up languages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-made-up-languages/264166>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 12, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-made-up-languages/264166 "2004-09-12T20:10:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-made-up-languages/264166/41 "2004-09-15T17:35:56Z")

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You lookin’ to get smacked, **Polycarp**? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-made-up-languages/264166/42 "2004-09-16T01:27:03Z")

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From [here](http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Languages_in_Star_Wars):

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> The languages of Star Wars, in contrast, are not systematically worked out. The Wookiee growls and the beeps of the astromechs mainly carry emotional indicators for the audience via intonation, and Huttese is mainly a jumble of words taken from numerous real human languages. There are exceptions: In A New Hope, the language spoken by the character Greedo in conversation with Han Solo (in the cantina) is actually the real, human language Quechua, an indigenous language of the Andean region of South America. In Return of the Jedi, Lando Calrissian’s copilot, Nien Nunb, speaks the real human language Haya, a dialect spoken in Tanzania (page 31, Star Wars Insider #67).

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