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Concord Dawn Mando’a dialect Q/A with authors (‘Mando’a Class’ TheForce.Net Boards, 2005 (Archived))

Q: Is the language spoken on Concord Dawn a dialect of Mando'a or is it completely different? Also, What form of Mando'a exactly are we speaking of in this thread (as in, which planet is this mando'a from, if mando'a is spoken in different planets like I'm assuming)?

KT: Mando'a is separate - it's an ancient language taken from the gray-skinned Mandalorians. Mando'ade have a lot of Concord Dawn blood in them (a factoid that I got added to continuity for reasons that will become clear shortly.) That's all canon/continuity.

Extrapolating here: Concord Dawn would probably be a different language but one that has picked up Mando'a words from long association.

A lot of Mando'ade come from Concord Dawn and end up back there. The flow is from Mando'a to CDish.

EDIT: I should have added - there might be accent variations, but Mando'a has remained remarkably unchanged and unaffected by other languages, because the Mandos just switch to basic and Huttese when they need to. And it's consistent from place to place, because it's an intergral part of the culture- almost sacred, although that's not the right word.

Q: Actually, will the Mandalorian names have significance?? I mean, Jangotat means "Brother of jango" so will Boba or Cassus and so forth mean anything? And on that note, do the KOTOR games have any language tidbits for Karen and Ryan?

KT: Yes, the names often have significance, if they're not geographical. They can sometimes me descriptive. (And don't forget that Jangotat is Concord Dawnish, not Mando'a.)

So far, nothing of note in KOTOR - I was talking to the guy who did the Mandalorian bits for that, just to check that I wasn't cutting across anything that existed, so that he's aware of the Mando'a database now.

Ryan Kaufman: And the Concord Dawn dialect has "F", "X", "Z" and a couple of other letters Mando'a doesn't use.

So those guys are either named from a different culture, a different dialect, or (third option) their names have been corrupted by Basic over time.

Imagine that in four thousand years, Kal Skirata might be spelled "Kal Zkirada."

Quick idea for the phonology of Concordian Mando’a:

This is basically based on one sentence in The Clone Wars, the fact that one sentence has verbal morphology that resembles Harlin’s Mando’a more than Traviss’s, a couple of things Traviss said about sound changes in Mando’a, and my headcanon about Concordia being the earliest settled Mandalorian world right after Manda’yaim itself.

inhales I FINALLY FIGURED OUT MY BROTHERSHIP OC!