Mando'a class (Mandalorian language)

That's a good question. First of all, we need someone to make a Mando smiley... lol

 

I actually don't think Mando'ade need such things...

Just as with the battle cry...

 

Kill counts sounds very convincing. Some chaps do like their visible displays of bad-arseness: take Boba's Wookiee scalps for instance.

Mini-lesson: aruetii is traitor (there are other meanings to this word, by the way) and the plural is aruetii'se.

 

Seems I guessed wrong...

back to topic: plural...

ending "ii -> ii'se"
ending "r -> r'e"
ending "t -> te"
ending "d -> de"


Is this correct?

 

Not quite. It's all about ease of pronunciation.

Plurals all take -e. But if the word ends in a vowel, you add -se. Try saying that vocalised e without a consonant in front of it: awkward.

That apostrophe-like mark - or beten - varies; some use it strictly, some don't. The beten is more to aid pronunciation than grammar. (Which was what a comma was originally about - breaths.)

 

Correct, but there are words that end in u that can take an e because there's a slight w sound at the end of u. By and large, though, add -se when in doubt.

 

Ok, I guess I understand... thank you for another lesson *g*

 

I finally listened to Vode An. I think I understand how to pronounce Mando'a.

 

Wow, this is really a whole launguage! Just wondering, is there something wosre than Dikut in mando'a? I guess i could try "honorless traitor" but i would need honorless.

 

Yes, it really is.

If you look back over the posts here, you'll find their worst insult - hut'uun.

But please bear in mind this isn't an insults thread, fun though that is. I didn't bust my gut developing this so that you could just curse each other...

 

Side-question:

Were the original Mandalorians humans? Because if, they have a common ancestry with the humans on Alderaan, Corellia and whereever humans settled down and in that case i can't see this common ancestor to spread over the galaxy without having a written language or to be a nomadic warrior-society.

 

The original Mandalorians were gray-skinned chaps who weren't human. The human Mandos sort of waltzed in and replaced them.

More detail on how and why they did that will surface sometime.

 

The dividing line seems to be in the Mandalorian Wars.

During the Sith War they seem predominately Mandalorian (gray-skins), while during the Jedi Civil War they are almost all humans.

 

There are gaps (i.e. opportunity gaps) in continuity that I'm busy filling in.

 

What is the translation of hut'uun? Dont worry, i wont use it, excpet maybe on my brother The only word i've really used is vod, when i am with fellow mando enthusiasts.

FTiek, If you want to know more about mando history,you will find it mostly in Comics, and Video Games. The big gap(and i hope Karen can fill some time) is abou 2000 years before Yavin. in the very beginig, we have the alein Mandalorians controling planet mandalore, and etc. Durring 3996 time perriod, the mandalorians attack with Uli-Qel Droma, and get defeated. Everybody knows tha mandoalorian wars and KOTOR, i wont explain. After that though, we dont know anything of mandalorians until Jango Fett OpenSeasons, with is good. So we have a big gap of maybe 3000-400 years to fill in.

 

It means coward.

 

If you lived in American, Karen, I have to say you're running the risk of encountering a Mando who will start gibbering this Mando'a and all I can say is, good luck.

I've just discovered your site, and it's quite candid I must say. I noticed the Verpine shatter gun matter and remember the talk. Just a mere gun that actually got discussed, I feel for you . . .

 

Well, all I can say about Mando'a is that I asked for it. It just struck me as something crying out to be done (the world's biggest media franchise without a usable alien language?)and something I'd have fun doing.

Same with the Mandalorians. I appear to be the only Mando-nut among the novelists. (The first person to say "delete the word Mando" gets a slap.) I never said I was sane or normal. They didn't specify that in the contract. I checked.

Yes, I'm a candid sort.

 

I think the LOTR elfy stuff is actually a little-heard language by a race near the arctic. I'm sure I newspaper read that 4yrs ago when the first movie came out, before I knew what LOTR was. Some 10,000 natives speak it; I remember that much. Unless I'm thinking of Klingon . . . I'm not Trek conversant. Only seen 3 movies.

 

Remove the word Mando

 

Ordo! Slap this chakaar for me, will you?

 

At your service, ma'am. (QM is out of duty...)

 

Tolkien based his High Elvish language Quenya on Latin, Finnish and Greek.