I don’t speak Tagalog myself, but a friend of mine from college who was Phillipino said she could make out a couple of words.
For what it’s worth, this bit of information has been making the circuit for years. Try Googling “Return of the Jedi”+Tagalog and you’ll see what I mean.
I saw Jedi when it was first released in Manila. Believe me, if the Ewoks had been speaking Tagalog, the theater would have gone nuts.
Of course, it can be said with absolute certainty that the three LOTR films were the finest films ever made where the Sindarin dialogue was accompanied by English subtitles! 
I’ve come back from Google, and it seems that the Tagalog-speaking Ewoks originated from a list of trivia published without attribution. The list includes this single reference:
but doesn’t say what those lines are. Many other sites appear to simply repeat this information without confirming it to be true. Other simply say “I heard from a Filipino-speaking friend…” Classic hallmarks of an urban legend. Then there are the claims that the Ewoks speak Tibetan or Nepalese.
Aha! Straight from the horse’s mouth:
http://www.starwars.com/episode-vi/classic/2000/11/classic20001113.html
IMHO, ROTK should really have won an oscar for best foreign language film too!
The Egyptian in Stargate is actually Finnish, or so I’ve heard.
Thank you
Here are a few sites about conlangs – constructed or artificial languages – including some that were designed in hopes they would actually be used, like Esperanto and Volapuk, as well as fictional exercises like Klingon and Elvish:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9219/conlangfaq.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9219/conlib.html
http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html
http://www.kli.org/ (The Klingon Language Institute)
http://www.quetzal.com/conlang.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/5555/conlang.htm (The Conlang Yellow Pages)
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Constructed/
Could be. According to the IMDB entry for Stargate, the archeologists who find the gate are speaking Swedish. It doesn’t say what the Egyptian/Abydosian language really is, but it does sound like a real language and not just gibberish. Perhaps there are some Finns on the board who can confirm or deny this?
In Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the invading aliens make captive humans learn their language, and their math is base eight.
While on the subject of conlangs, here are some of mine. Saimiar is currently the only one that I’ve developed to any degree of complexity.
For the movie Quest For Fire Anthony Burgess created the language used by the Ice Age characters; it was an interpolation (is that the right word?) backward to what Indo-European might have been like at the time.
Linguist Victoria Fromkin created the ape-people’s language in the original Land of the Lost and the vampire language in the movie Blade.
Many different science fiction worlds (those in the comic books Nexus and Legion of Super-Heroes come immediately to mind) refer to an interstellar lingua franca called Interlac, but I don’t know if it’s ever been more than just a name in any of them.
And while he didn’t create it (obviously) for his Riverworld books, Philip Jose Farmer does establish that Esperanto becomes its lingua franca.
Extrapolation. Interpolation is for when the point of interest is within the range you know; extrapolation is for when the point is outside the known range.
The Legion of Super-Heroes’ Interlac has been shown in the comics as an symbol cipher for English here’s a link, but no words (unless the expletives “Sprock” and “Grife” count) in the spoken Interlac language have ever been printed untranslated.
Iffen I was talking about something that might happen in the future based on current data, that would be an extrapolation.
But if I’m making inferences about the past based on current data, wouldn’t that be something else?
Extrapolation is used for both directions.
If you insist that it be a different word, I hereby invent the word “retropolation”.
Man, I gotta study harder so I can get those kinds of gigs someday.
– Dragonblink, grad student in linguistics
Yes! I’ll take it!
Which led to the story about the anthropologist and glottochronologist who cadged use of the world’s first time machine to investigate the mound-building culture in the Ukraine about 2000 BC that is thought to have been the speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE for short).
His colleagues all told him, “When come back…” 