#conlag

The SouthEast Cities of Mandalore, a sub-region of 5 cities part of the East Cities, host their own mando’a dialect, just like many of the other regions. Let’s see the main differences between the southeast dialect and the standard mando’a:

Southeast mandalorians tend to get rid of the letter “r” entirely, especially when found in the middle or at the end of a word, putting more emphasis on the vocals before it with an accent.

Examples:

Beskar → Beskà [besh- KAH]

Resol’nare  → Resol’nà [REH-sol-NAH]

Haar’chak! (Damn it!) → Haa’chak! [HAH-chahk] 

Wer’cuy (Forget it) → We’cù [we-CUH]

K’uur! (Hush!) → K’uu!  [KOOH]

K’olar!(Come here!) → K’olà! [ko-LAH]

Cuy ogir’olar (It’s irrelevant) → Cu’ ogi’là  [COO oh-gee-LAH]

Vor’e (Thanks) → Vo’e [vo-EH]

Gar serim (That’s it) → Ga’ se’ì [gah seh-EE]

Buir (Parent) → Bù [BOO]

The removal of the last or last two letters is also very common, and not only because of the presence of the “r”.

Examples:

K’atini! (Suck it up!) → K’atì! [kah-TEE]

Vod (Sibling) → Vo’ [VOH]

Ba’vodu (aunt/uncle) → Ba’vù  [bah-VUH]

Ori’jate (Very good) → Ori’jà  [o-ree-JAH]

Mirsh'kyramud (Boring person) → Mirsh’kyrà [MEERSH-kee-RAH]

Ret'urcye mhi (Goodbye) → Ret’ù mhi  [reh-TOO mee]

Nar dralshy'a (Try harder) → Na dralsh’à [nah drahl-SHAH]

Udesii (Calm down) → Udè [oo-DEH]

Hukaat'kama (Watch my back) → Hukaa’mà [hu-kah-MAH]

Mirshmure'cya (Keldabe Kiss/Headbutt) → Mirshmur’yà [meersh-moo-RYA]

Many words and phrases (especially in exclamation) also get very abbreviated, with a good chunk of letters gone entirely.

examples:

Su’cuy gar! (Hello!) → Su ga’  [soo GAH]

Gedet’ye! (Please!) → Get’ye! [geh-THYE] 

K’oyacyi! (Cheers!) → K’oyi!  [koh-YEE]

Usenye! (Go away!) → Usyè! [oo-SYEH]

Mir’osik! (Dung for brains!) → M’osik! [moh-SEEK]

Mar'e! (At last!) → Mà! [MAH]

Kandosii! (Nice one!) → Kasii! [kah-SEE]

Ke’pare! (Wait!) → Ke’pà! [ke-PAH]

Copaani gaan? (Need a hand?) → Copa’ gaa? [ko-pah GAAH]

Sooran, shab! (Suck on that, chum!) → Soo’à, shà! [soo-AH SHAH]

Other phrases:

Ni kar’tayili gar darasuum (I love you) → Ni ka’talì ga’ daasuum

Mando’ad draar digu (A Mandalorian never forgets) → Mand’ad draa digù

Ori’buyce, kih’kovid (All helmet, no head) → Ori’bù, kih’kovì

Aliit ori'shya tal'din (Family is more than blood) → Allit o’shya ta’din

Ni kar’tayil gai sa’ad (I know your name as my child) → Ni ka’talì ga’ sa’ad 

I’ve been working on the Sandpaperian alphabet! :D Don’t mind the empty columns, I was going to put lowercase letters there but generally they tend to just look like a smaller version of their corresponding uppercase letters.

There’s a website that lets you make your own font, if I can find a way to make that work then I’d be happy to send that here as well.

I’d also like to note that this is not the full version of the alphabet, however there wasn’t a good way to represent the full list of characters with a standard keyboard. I plan on making a post with the remaining Sandpaperian letters, as well as some examples of unique characters that show up in the texts.

That’s all for now though! You’re all free to use this if you’d like, no credit needed. Nintendo didn’t really bother to make a proper, functioning alphabet so I tried organizing what I had to go with. Some of the texts are even repeated with completely different translations…

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