Huttese

Huttese was the language spoken by the Hutts, a slug-like species who called Nal Hutta their homeworld. It was also commonly spoken on Hutt-controlled planets like Tatooine. Even on worlds such as Lothal, where Hutts were not in power, their tongue was still a widespread trade language. Despite its prevalence, Huttese was generally unknown to stormtroopers, the soldiers of the Galactic Empire, as most of them could not speak anything other than Galactic Basic Standard.Star Wars Rebels: Rise of the Rebels Holographic barricade tape at a crime scene on Plazir-15 read "CAUTION" in Aurebesh, and "CHESS KO" (Huttese for "careful"; as in "be careful") in Outer Rim Basic, suggesting that the language was spoken there as well.
Although Huttese was a unique language, it shared certain structural similarities with Aqualish and Rodian, enough that learning one of these languages would make the others easier to learn.Sabine My Rebel Sketchbook Maize Raynshi regarded Huttese as a great language to use when one needed to swear.
==Known words and phrases==
==Behind the scenes==
On the DVD commentary track of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and in interactive CD-ROM Star Wars: Behind the Magic, Lucasfilm sound designer Ben Burtt stated that he based Huttese on Quechua, an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Andes and highlands of South America. DVD commentaryStar Wars: Behind the Magic
George Lucas had called upon Burtt to come up with a voice for the Rodian Greedo in , who at first was to speak with an electronic, insect-like voice, but later decided towards a humanoid language. After going through mutliple languages of the world, Burtt was attracted to Quechua because it featured comical repetitions and some musicality. As the language is endangered, Burtt failed to find a native speaker to produce sound samples, so he found Linguist Larry Ward, a UC Berkeley grad student. He utilized Ward's knowledge and skills to analyse the language and together they created some "fake Quechua" words and phrases.Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide
While Burtt and Ward recorded lines of Huttese according to Greedo's snout's movement in the footage, the reverse would happen for ; Burtt had to script some Huttese lines before filming begun, so that the operators of Jabba's puppet could move his mouth according to the sounds. Some of the new vocabulary, including bo shuda and boska was made up by Lucas himself. For "Lapti Nek", the "Huttese" lyrics were writen by singer Annie Abrogast, with some help from Burtt.
For , the Huttese dialogues were the first thing finished by Burtt, who "translated" the lines, then recorded their intended pronunciation and intonation, and distributed to the voice actors for reference.
==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
*Disney Infinity 3.0
*LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
==Sources==
===Non-canon sources===
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==Notes and references==
Category:Hutt culture
Category:Languages