What he's trying to do is refer to a particular type of sand, and make a comparative metaphor to the sand on Naboo (iirc theyre looking out over a lake with a shore) and also the cultures of the two places.

However, Huttese and/or Amatakka would have many words for sand of all different kinds (like how Inuit languages have lots of words for snow), so while he is referring to something specific, it just comes out as sand. The descriptors after are course correcting in order to clarify what kind of sand he means.

"Dukkra ba dukkra - I will be free." My OC, Yaarre Whitefire, from my fanfic "Dukkra ba Dukkra (Luck Had Nothing to do with it)."

A girl with a sharp tongue and a hot head born into slavery.

She never knew a family.

Her dream was to be free.

Her dream became one of freeing the whole planet.

WIP under the cut!

Like, if there's ever anything that represents her, it's this thing.

Like, with elements that are ekkreth,

And some that are Leyya

And some that are lukka

And the rest is The Mother.

Ok so this is gonna be a complicated answer, and i'm gonna immediately @anabenalia, the actual linguist in the club.

First of all, *writing tutor voice* I'm not sure what a BA is in this context (bachelor's thesis?) or what the exact requirements for it are, so what you decide is gonna depend a lot on what those are. It's also gonna depend on what topic you're actually planning on writing about.

That said, I can tell you what Amatakka consists of!

Fialleril Things

So, a bit of background. Fialleril is the creator of Amavikka the culture, and Amatakka, the language, and indeed has been inactive for quite a long time. Prior to that, it seems that she opened up Amatakka and Amavikka to be used by anyone in fandom (Important note: I have never had any direct interaction with Fialleril as I came to writing about Amavikka things after she'd already gone inactive, and have no idea what her opinions would be on someone writing acadamia on Amatakka. Also note I have not read everything she's ever posted, so there could be things i'm missing).

A lot of the content and structure of Amatakka that currently exists was not created by Fialleril--her comments on the conlanging of Amatakka include:

"I will be the first to admit, though, that I’m really not very good at linguistics and that I definitely haven’t gone about creating Amatakka in a very systematic way (15/08/2019)" She notes that while Amatakka is not deliberately inspired by any language, "[she's] sure there’s a good bit of influence from Latin and classical Greek as those are the two languages other than English that [she's] studied most (15/08/2019)."

Fialleril created quite a bit of vocabulary (in the spreadsheets i'm gonna link later the creators of each word are logged so you can look at who made what), but very little grammar and syntax. There are only a few full sentences in any of her fics or posts ("ek masa nu… - My name is…" is the only example i can think of).

If you want to write about only things Fialleril created, I think you would struggle to come up with a full thesis on just that, as it's quite limited.

The Dialects

Here is where things get complicated. So post Fialleril opening up Amavikka culture to be written about by fandom, you get people like me (and @looseleafteeaves, @yellow-faerie, @booklindworm, @/anabenalia, and no doubt others) who want to build and expand on both the vocab and structure of Amatakka. The problem is, none of us actually know each other yet.

Several different people went about (a) collecting all the Amatakka vocab & sentences we could find, (b) adding new vocab and grammar, and (c) coming up with various world building surrounding the language. All of this together means that we built some very different things, which we were all quite attached to by the time we found out about each other and could coordinate on things.

Among the people in the Chelliik'ta discord, there are now several dialects (not really using the word in any technical linguistic sense), which draw to varying extents on a collective dictionary, which I compiled from Fialleril's vocab and all of our individual dialect's dictionaries. It currently has about 900 entries, but not every dialect uses every word from the collective.

Berim Amatakka

Berim Amatakka (spreadsheet linked) is my version of Amatakka. The base of the grammar is a a bit of a French-Spanish-English + random linguistics facts i learned (it was my first proper conlang lol). It's got about 850 words currently, and while the TAM system isn't quite complete (been meaning to add the three imperative moods for ages), it does have quite a bit of range and a few quirks that I (totally not biased) think are pretty cool. I have quite a few translated sayings, phrases, and even a few longer sections of text like my hit parody of edelweiss and I try to think from an Amatakka first perspective so that my translations embodying the attitude & culture of the language rather than being English in a poor disguise.

Kehran Amatakka

Kehran Amatakka is @/looseleafteeaves creation. It shares a lot of vocab with Berim, albeit there is a lot of minor variation for phonology & different word formation between the two. The grammar is more different (i think slightly less complete in terms of TAM), though a Kehran speaker and a Berim speaker would likely have some mutual comprehension (think maybe something like the relationship between French & Haitian Creole). Looseleaves has some pretty cool translations out there was well, but I don't have them on hand. I do have the transcript of a conversation or two that me and looseleaves had solely in Kehran over discord which i feel is study-able (i made a graph)

Queli Amatakka

Queli is @/anabenalia’s creation. I believe it is the most grammatically complete of the dialects, and while it shares some vocabulary, is an entirely different language than either Berim or Kehran, that I honestly know very little about the details of.

(Anaben correct me if I'm wrong but I think you have some pretty long translations somewhere?)

Other Chelliik'ta Discord Dialects

There are a few other dialects that have been worldbuilt, like @yellow-faerie's Nittu dialect, which mostly consist of word variations on the collective dictionary atm, rather than having grammars. There are a few interesting notes that have some up from comparing these, for example, arising from yellow-faerie's fic Daughters, Daughters:

My original Star Wars digital art of a Twi'lek dancing was inspired by a post made by @booklindworm of the fan-made slave language Amatakka.

The dancer is a slave on Tatooine who hopes for freedom. Using their dictionary, the caption translates to "death or freedom".

From their post:

dukkra - death (not gendered), frequently used idiomatically (and just as frequently literally) to mean freedom (in death or otherwise) [DAV 4 - The Slave Who Makes Free]

dukkra ba dukkra - death or freedom (not gendered) [DAV 4 - The Slave Who Makes Free]

The Gal had told him, as they all sat around the flickering lamp in the midst of the sandstorm. The children of the Sun, the Mother. Their own mothers gone—not one sign of their whereabouts. The sandstorm had caught up with them. Gal had taken them into her hut to comfort them, though she offered no reassurance. There was no time for reassurances, nor any point in them.

There was no comfort or safety in the claim that their amu's were with their depur, even though it was the likeliest case. No depur would want to waste valuable goods. No chain was a good chain, no matter how guilded. A chain meant no safety, no comfort.

"You shall guide us, Ekkreth. The shapeshifter. The Skywalker."

Anakin was never sure of how he felt about his destiny. His amu was not at all fond of it, and to Anakin, his amu hung the very stars in the sky, his amu brought the two suns to rest at the end of each day to provide them with rest and solitude. Allowed them the false respite of freedom that they would never see.

Ekkreth died after the rain fell, Amu claimed.

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Context for those who might not know: Dai Bendu is the fanmade secret language of the Jedi. Amatakka is the fanmade secret language of the slaves of Tattooine.

What if Anakin never learned Dai Bendu? Hear me out, hear me out. Normally it would be learned in early, early childhood, like, the creches. He was never really in the creches. So when he started his years as a Padawan, it wouldn't really have come up. Here's where the tragedy comes in.

Everyone just assumed that Anakin knew Dai Bendu already, but never spoke it, and they were more wary of him because of that. They thought it meant that he was rejecting them somehow, or that he didn't really want to be a part of the Order. Anakin, who grew up with Amatakka as the secret language of his people and was familiar with the concept already, thought that they didn't want to teach them their language because he wasn't really a part of the Order, and kept his distance because of that (among other reasons). Obi-Wan never realized any of this because Anakin never brought it up (because you're not supposed to Bring Up secrets like this out loud), so he didn't realize anything was wrong. Anakin never bringing this up to anyone only compounded the issue, because they thought that if he never brought up not knowing the language, he must have already known it. They thought that Obi-Wan had taught him, or something.

I’m obsessed with it. Our language is languaging! And I am obsessed.