Huttese / Legends Huttese was the native language of the Hutts , although it was spoken by many races , especially those in Hutt Space . Because of the Hutts ' commercial and criminal influence throughout the galaxy , Huttese was the second most common language after Galactic Basic , and served as the " lingua franca " for most of the space surrounding the Hutts ' territory . History . Being one of the more common modes of intergalactic communication , the Baobab School of Speed - Learning offered an extremely popular course to promote Huttese fluency . All the Nimbanels were fluent in Huttese , as well as in Basic and their own language , because their snout structure made it easy for them to articulate the Huttese language . Understanding the advantages of learning such an important language , the species made it a semi - official language of Nimban . Huttese was so influential that it also became a primary language for the Rodian race . Toydarians were also usually fluent in Huttese , because the two species had had a long commercial history with each other . They usually preferred to speak their Toydarian rather than Basic , but if that was not a choice , they would try Huttese . Huttese was one of the primary languages of Tatooine and many Hutt - controlled worlds like it . Although most Hutts were fluent in spoken and written Basic , they considered Huttese to be a much superior language to Basic , and exclusively addressed others in it , often relying on protocol droids to translate for them . The Hutts were the owners of three species , Niktos , Klatooinians , and Vodrans , since the time of the Third Battle of Vontor . Klatooinians and Vodrans had forfeited their respective languages ( Klatooinian and Vodran language ) to replace them with Huttese , being usually illiterate . However , Niktos kept alive the Nikto during their servitude , learning Huttese only as a second language , and sometimes Basic as a third language . Some Hutts talked with their Nikto servants in Nikto language . Huttese had many words ending in - a , especially - a ( C ) a ( ex . botaffa ) , palatalized l ( rulya ) , and expressions formed by duplicated words ( rocka rocka , puna puna , chu chu ) . Another common convention of Huttese was the pronunciation of x as a . It should be noted that the Hutts had no words for the otherwise polite phrases of ' Please ' and ' Thank You ' . Speaking in Huttese . Counting in Huttese . Counting in Huttese is a risky proposition . While [ [ Human / Legends | Humans ] ] have ten fingers , Hutts have but eight , meaning that their method of counting uses base eight . Hutts have utilized the ensuing confusion to their monetary advantage ; if , for example , a Hutt were to offer you twelve of something in Huttese , it is the equivalent of ten in [ [ Galactic Basic Standard | Basic ] ] . Generally speaking , the problem grows exponentially the higher one rises , and many a race ( including the [ [ Rodian / Legends | Rodians ] ] ) have been horribly swindled by the discrepancy . To avoid such predicaments , wise negotiators use the [ [ Galactic Basic Standard | Basic ] ] number system , which explains why the monetary amounts spoken by Jabba are in Basic . [ [ File : Gnome - speakernotes . png | 30px | ( audio ) ] ] [ [ Media : jabba . ogg | Jabba the Hutt speaking Huttese ] ] Behind the scenes . The Huttese language was introduced in [ [ Star Wars : Episode VI Return of the Jedi | " Star Wars " : Episode VI " Return of the Jedi " ] ] . In the [ [ The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition | Special Edition ] ] 1997 release of Episode IV , it was adapted for the newly recorded dialogue of Jabba the Hutt . George Lucas contacted Allen Sonafrank to record the dialogue . Sonafrank discussed the matter with Jim Wilce , Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University , and felt it might be demeaning to have an alien represent Quechuans , especially in light of Erich von Daniken ' s popular publications about the " ancient astronauts " . However , a grad student , who could pronounce but did not speak Quechua , recorded the dialogue . Most of the alien language spoken in the movies is Huttese . It is also heard in the games " [ [ Star Wars : Jedi Knight : Mysteries of the Sith ] ] " , " [ [ Star Wars Episode I : The Phantom Menace ( video game ) | Star Wars Episode I : The Phantom Menace ] ] " , and " [ [ Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic ] ] " . In the latter , the dialogues were pre - recorded , in different genders and moods . They of course didn ' t correspond to the sayings of the subtitles , but were repeated themselves according to the particular mood . Apart from the vocabulary , no real grammatical structure and syntactic rules exist . The meanings of some phrases are known , but not enough to consistently make a word - by - word analysis of them . External links . [ [ Category : Hutt culture ] ] [ [ Category : Klatooinian culture ] ] [ [ Category : Languages ] ]