Star Wars Accents

What do you think the accents sound like in the Star Wars galaxy? They always mention how someone has a Kuati accent, or a Corellian accent. I'm guessing it'd be like us, sort of, with English, Austrailian, etc. Although, it is difficult imagining what someone like Viqi Shesh would sound like, with her Kuati accent. What do you think?

 

Well, there would probably be millions of Basic dialects, just like English here on Earth has hundreds. It would probably take a really tuned ear to tell where someone was from, and by chance some dialects probably sounds like others from another planet.

I think that they would probably use vocabulary, and sentence structure more to guess what accent the person is using. If the language had been used for so long, I think everyone would eventually learn similar accents, unless it was influenced by their native tounge. Which, other than the big 3 English speaking areas here (US, UK, and Australia), would give the similar effect someone who knows Japanese and then learnt English.

 

The British accents in the films are likely to be Coruscant accents.

 

Heres what I think some accents sound like
Corellian-french or creole
corusant-english
Kuati- middle eastern

 

Han, and Wedge are from the same planet. Han and Wedge have different accents. There is more than one type of accent that fall under the category of correllian accents.

 

"It would probably take a really tuned ear to tell"

Just like Face's ear in Wraith Squadron

 

i would think Corellian would be more American

courescant would be more English

and Kuati, perhapes eastern european

 

Yet, Wedge Antillies has a non-american accent(which is a bad stereotyping of america to be sure, considering that america is made up of a variety of accents depending on what area you come from), and he's from Correllia.

 

I think Correllians have a couple of different recognizable accents. Just like the USA has southern accents and northern accents, but they're both recognized as distinctly American.

 

The Wedge/Han difference always did bug me. I always imagined corellian to be like american - but Wedge sort of ruins that theory...

I suppose the idea of different regions works to solve that one... but then didn't wedge grow up on a space station anyway?

 

Yet, there are books that say that wedge has a correllian accent. So he had to have learned his specific correllian dialect from his parents who were from correllia.

 

Where was the gas station that Wedge's parent ran? Was it over Corellia or some other planet? ?


Personally, I always viewed the Corellians as Americans in both accent and attitude. Just look at the Corellian Jedi. They broke all of the rules set up by the Jedi Council, what with their marrying and having kids and all.

 

Gus Treta was the name of the refuelling station (I think). It was situated just as you enter the Corellian system (I could be wrong though, i have no official material to check it against at Uni).

---Casket_Morbid---

 

Thanks for the info. Been too long since I last read the X-Wing books.

 

Er...you do realize that the Star Wars characters -- though we hear them speak English -- should really be speaking Basic or their native tongues. You gotta suspend disbelief here, folks. So we have an American playing Corellian Han Solo and a Scotsman playing fellow Corellian Wedge Antilles. They have different accents, but so what? Accents in the GFFA may vary from world to world. But in said worlds -- just like on our own -- it may also vary from geographical (or In-System) region to region. Wedge, who had a more or less normal upbringing with a stable family, probably adopted a Corellian Core accent (i.e. British sounding). While Han, who led a more rough-and-tumble life, adopted a less-refined or earthier Corellian accent (i.e. American sounding).

 

For the sake of clarity in the GFFA, "English" *IS* "Basic". I always thought that was pretty clear.

 

Yep, english is basic, thush why both aurebesh, and alphabet(with english words) can be found in sources from time to time(see ANH for one source of alphatbet text), or english puns like, "I'm Solo, it's just me, my self and I, alone, Solo.", or what ever the quote was in han solo trilogy. All aurebesh text has to be figured out with an english alphabet, as there are 26 letters in both, and those letters make up translated text in aurabesh without changing the language.

 

Yeah, all editions of Star Wars Monopoly have the Aurebesh on the back of the game instruction manual. That's where I first saw it.

I used to know translations for Naboo lettering, and Trade Federation symbols.

 

Well, considering the bgg X in X-WIng along with all the other ?-Wings, they have to be using our alphabit.

And the Twin Ion Engine thing adds credence to basic simply being english.

 

Corellian - New York
Coruscant - English
Kuati - Hannibal Lectar

 

I get the impression that for human accents, the Core accents are like proper English accents, while the further Rim-ward you go, it gets more and more like American.

 

I think that there aren't just one accent per planet. Think about. On earth countries speak english but it sounds diffrent. Maybe Han, who grew up in cities of the 5 brothers may have city accent, were as Wedge you grew up in the spacestaions and ship has a driffrent. may be each planet has diffrent accents just like ours. look at Gandolf he has a canadian accent were i, who only live in a coupke of miles ffrom the bourder to that great state, sound diffrent.

 

klick
"I think that there aren't just one accent per planet.

In such advanced society's as those depicted in star wars, technological advancements (in communication and transport) would have concievebly led to the homogenisation of accents.

I think its inevitable that once you break down the distance barriers, a single language will gradual become almost the sole language of the planet and even accents would become less distinct and would eventually transform into a single identifiable accent.

I think that the Adumari accent was an interesting addition and would perhaps illustrate this. The Rogue's were puzzled by this strange accent. And Adumar had been isolated from the rest of the galaxy for millenia. As an impermeable language barrier existed between the rest of the galaxy and Adumar during this time, the Adumari accent evolved independantly of the rest of the galaxy, producing such a distinct and strange one as it did.

 

DarthBinks I never thought of it that way. I'm just trying to make sence to a puzzel.

 

Personally, it doesn't matter. Even in the same country here on earth, speaking the same language, there's going to be various accents. Just on the east coast of the US alone, speaking english, I can think of several accents. The Southern Accent, the accent of the Deep South (to me, it's a wee bit deeper and fuller than the Southern Accent), the Brooklyn Accent, the New England Accent, the Downeastern Maine Accent, the Bostonian Accent. And after you've lived someplace for a while, you usually pick up that accent, though you may revert to a previous accent you had for a long time at various times depending on your mood.