Editing Languages in Star Wars (section)

===Mando'a {{anchor|Mandalorian}}===
[[File:Mandalorian alphabet, updated.svg|thumb|The Mandalorian script was created for displays in ''[[Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones|Attack of the Clones]]''.|alt=The letters and numerals of the Mandalorian alphabet]]
A written form of the [[Mandalorian]] language was developed by Metschan for the display screens of [[Jango Fett]]'s ship ''[[Slave I]]'' in ''Attack of the Clones'',<ref name="Metschan">{{Cite web|title=Holographic Artist: Philip Metschan|url=https://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/feature/20020716/indexp2.html|date=July 16, 2002|publisher=[[Lucasfilm]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041022093034/http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/feature/20020716/indexp2.html|archive-date=October 22, 2004|access-date=April 23, 2016}}</ref> and it was later reused in ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)|The Clone Wars]]'' and ''[[Star Wars Rebels|Rebels]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.starwars.com/tv-shows/clone-wars/the-academy-trivia-gallery?dlid=5679951a3049898d25023c45|title=The Academy Trivia Gallery|website=StarWars.com|publisher=[[Lucasfilm]]|access-date=January 29, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.starwars.com/tv-shows/star-wars-rebels/visions-and-voices-trivia-gallery?dlid=584ef7f1f6895b163aec963fa|title=Visions and Voices Trivia Gallery|website=StarWars.com|publisher=[[Lucasfilm]]|access-date=November 18, 2017}}</ref> Composer Jesse Harlin, needing lyrics for the choral work he wanted for the 2005 ''[[Star Wars: Republic Commando|Republic Commando]]'' video game, invented a spoken form, intending it to be an ancient language. It was named ''Mando'a'' and extensively expanded by [[Karen Traviss]], author of the ''[[Star Wars Republic Commando (series)|Republic Commando]]'' [[Star Wars Republic Commando (series)|novel series]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musiconfilm.net/get_feature.php?id=6|title=Commando Composer: An Interview with Jesse Harlin|last=Bielawa|first=Justin|date=March 8, 2006|website=musiconfilm.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108152622/http://www.musiconfilm.net/get_feature.php?id=6|archive-date=January 8, 2010|access-date=July 13, 2016}}</ref>

Mando'a is identified as a primarily spoken, [[agglutinative language]] lacking [[grammatical gender]] in nouns and pronouns.<ref name="SWITraviss">{{cite magazine|last=Traviss|first=Karen|date=February 2006|title=No Word for Hero: The Mandalorian Language|magazine=[[Star Wars Insider]]|publisher=[[IDG Entertainment]]|issue=86|pages=25–26|author-link=Karen Traviss}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Star Wars Republic Commando: True Colors|last=Traviss|first=Karen|date=October 30, 2007|publisher=[[Del Rey Books]]|isbn=978-0-345-49800-7|pages=356|quote=It was the same word for "mother" or "father". ''Mando'a'' didn't bother with gender.|author-link=Karen Traviss}}</ref> The language is also identified as lacking a [[passive voice]], primarily speaking in an [[active voice]]. It is often vague and described as having three [[grammatical tense]]s ([[present tense|present]], [[past tense|past]], and [[future tense|future]]). Its speakers typically do not use the tenses other than the present.<ref name="SWITraviss"/><ref>{{Cite book|title=Star Wars Republic Commando: Triple Zero|last=Traviss|first=Karen|date=February 28, 2006|publisher=[[Del Rey Books]]|isbn=978-0-345-49009-4|pages=341|quote=I thought you ''Mando'ade'' lived only for the day. You even have trouble using anything but the present tense.|author-link=Karen Traviss}}</ref> The language is described as having a [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]] dialect called "Concordian" spoken on the planet [[Concord Dawn (Star Wars)|Concord Dawn]], as stated in Traviss's novels ''Order 66'' and ''501st'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Star Wars Republic Commando: Order 66|date=May 19, 2009|publisher=[[Del Rey Books]]|isbn=978-0-345-51385-4|edition=Reprint|page=327|quote=It wasn't ''Mando'a'', but it was close enough for any Mandalorian to understand.|author-link=Karen Traviss|last1=Traviss|first1=Karen}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Star Wars Imperial Commando: 501st|date=October 27, 2009|publisher=[[Del Rey Books]]|isbn=978-0-345-51113-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/starwars501st00kare/page/105 105]|quote=In Concordian, the Concord Dawn dialect of ''Mando'a'', the phrase—brother, sister—sounded very similar.|author-link=Karen Traviss|last1=Traviss|first1=Karen|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/starwars501st00kare/page/105}}</ref> and a dialect spoken on Mandalore's moon Concordia is heard in "The Mandalore Plot", a season two episode of ''The Clone Wars''.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The Mandalore Plot|series=Star Wars: The Clone Wars|series-link=Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)|first=Melinda|last=Hsu|author-link=Melinda Hsu|date=January 29, 2010|season=2|number=12|time=7:57|quote=He was speaking in the dialect they use on Concordia, our moon.}}</ref>