Boba can't speak Mando'a?

Then what language did Jango speak to him in in AotC? When Obi visited the Kamino home?

 

Huttese.

 

I would guess it was Huttese, since ,in bloodlines, Boba listed that as the only other language he used since it was the "business language".

Or it could have been something local to Kamino, they had been there for awhile, after all.

And then there's the possibility that when Boba was 10 years old he knew a bit of mandalorian, but forgot it due to just never using it. After all, he is 72 when he says he doesn't know the language. I doubt that when I'm 72 I will remember something I vaguely knew when I was 10. Actually, I hope I can remember something PERIOD when I'm that age....

 

jango and boba find that huttese and basic serve them well,evan padme spoke and was litterate in huttese as was anakin and han solo,its right up there with basic in importance.

 

Makes me wonder why Huttese isnt the SW language and Mando'a is.

 

I'm assuming it's because Mandalorians have a bigger following than the actual Hutts. If you had a choice of speaking the language of a group of warriors, or....well Jabba, what would you choose?

 

*shrug* good point

 

I believe it was confirmed as far back as the text commentary for the AOTC DVD.

And it's fairly reasonable - I can imagine Huttese a far more useful language for a bounty hunter with clients all over the galaxy, than the language of a near-extinct fringe culture.

 

"The" SW language is Basic, which by accident just happens to be (almost) identical to English.

 

Basic is no more English than Westron is.

 

Oh, can we stop that, already? Westron is a language that wasn't English, but which Tolkien supposedly "translated" LOTR from. Basic, however, is English, the Aurebesh alphabet was designed with English in mind, and inscriptions shown in visual media are clearly English.

 

As pointed out by Abel Peña, according to Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, Basic has no translation for "consecrate". English does, and in the books the word is translated accordingly.

Auto-translation isn't foreign to Star Wars, either. Scenes with the Vong speaking English to each other occur all the time in the NJO.

 

I think you mean "a Star Wars language".

If I'm not greatly mistaken, Mando'a was developed out of a combination of Latin and Hungarian influences, with the sentence structure borrowed from English, while Huttese, though apparently based partially on Quechua and Aymara, appears to be more a sort of debased pidgin English (e.g. "sleemo" "poodoo", etc).

 

Since Mando'a got actual grammar rules and a much larger vocabulary.

 

Actually, it's the other way around. The human brain is primed for learning languages at very young ages, and any languages you learn before the ages of 7-8 you are highly unlikely to ever forget, no matter how often you use or don't use them. Languages become much, much harder to learn later, and you're more likely to forget them, but ones you learn at the ages Boba would have been in Jango's care are another story entirely.

I find it hard to believe that the clones came out of Tipoca City speaking more Mando'a than Jango's own son, personally.

 

And, as opposed to modern ciphers, any natural language -- including languages one doesn't know at all -- have some easily noticeable patterns. You would probably start by doing a frequency analysis of the letters (or phonemes, of the language spoken)...in any natural language, the distribution will be strongly non-random, with some letters (or phonemes) being much more common than others.

Afterward, though, these patterns are only useful if they can be related to patterns of a natural language that you already know. Likewise, any infant who learns his/her mother tongue "breaks" the natural language of his parents. Boba would've been no exception to this.

 

darn you! i was going to say that. it would have made me sound clever!

 

i am also english.