Imperial Languages

Raoul Duke, Jr. · Post by **Raoul Duke, Jr.** » 2002-10-01 04:49pm

Here's a question for a fanfic I'm contemplating: How many languages do Imperial humans have, what are their names and what is the most prevalent one?

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-01 04:52pm

BASIC is the most prevelent, by far.

Then there's Hapen. In the Hapes cluster only.

All others are local dialects, and mostly ignored.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-10-01 09:12pm

When the Imperials took over, they probably made a "Galactic Language". According to the EpI ICS, the Empire standardized communications, making translators on ships nearly obselete.

Raoul Duke, Jr. · Post by **Raoul Duke, Jr.** » 2002-10-01 09:22pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:When the Imperials took over, they probably made a "Galactic Language". According to the EpI ICS, the Empire standardized communications, making translators on ships nearly obselete.

That could be a problem for them in unfamiliar territory.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-10-01 11:55pm

Just because they're obsolete doesn't mean they're gone. Simply reduced in signifigance. After all, there's an assload of room on a mile-long cheese wedge, how much could a translator take?

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2002-10-02 03:24pm

Howedar wrote:Just because they're obsolete doesn't mean they're gone. Simply reduced in signifigance. After all, there's an assload of room on a mile-long cheese wedge, how much could a translator take?

Oh, about the size of a human head.

While six million languages for one droid seems to be considered impressive (for a commercial product) in SW, it might be a sufficient amount for within the 12 million inhabited worlds of the Galaxy.

Raoul Duke, Jr. wrote:That could be a problem for them in unfamiliar territory.

What unfamilliar terriroty? Many sources state that the unknown regions mostly comprises of systmes dispersely spread out on the very edge of the galaxy. Since most likely all of the galaxy has been mapped by then, and the majority of the galaxy is inhabitted, there's no need to analyze 'new' languages, as they're all known.

Unless you're referring to the simple porblem of language gaps, which is covered by cheap, reliable droid translators. Basically, everyone either speaks Basic, Huttese, or the dominent regional language, or uses a protocol droid when their languages differ.[/quote]

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-10-02 03:44pm

Dude I'm not looking forward to this fanfic....