Editing Languages in Star Wars (section)

=== Non-standard Basic ===
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| source = {{mdash}}an example of Yoda's unusual word order from ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''
}}[[Yoda]] characteristically speaks a non-standard [[syntax]] of Basic, primarily constructing sentences in [[object–subject–verb]] word order rare in natural languages. This sentence construction is cited as a "clever device for making him seem very alien" and characterizes his dialogue as "vaguely riddle-like, which adds to his mystique". This tendency is noted to be written for an English-speaking audience; the word order is retained in [[Estonian language|Estonian]] subtitles, where it is grammatical but unusual and emphatic, and Yoda's dialogue is in [[subject–object–verb]] word order in [[Czech language|Czech]] dubs.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/hmmmmm/420798/|title=An Unusual Way of Speaking, Yoda Has|last=LaFrance|first=Adrienne|date=December 18, 2015|magazine=[[The Atlantic]]|access-date=August 1, 2016}}</ref>

[[Gungan]] characters, notably [[Jar Jar Binks]], speak in a heavily accented Basic [[dialect]] critics described as a "Caribbean-flavored [[pidgin]]",<ref name="LATimes" /> "a pidgin mush of [[West African languages|West African]], [[Caribbean English|Caribbean]] and [[African-American English|African-American linguistic styles]]",<ref name="TheNation" /> "very like [[Jamaican Patois|Jamaican patois]], albeit a notably reductive, even infantilized sort",<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages|last1=Conley|first1=Tim|last2=Cain|first2=Stephen|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood]]|year=2006|isbn=978-0313331886|pages=173–176}}</ref> and suggestive of stereotypical [[African-American culture]].<ref name="CNN">{{Cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9906/09/jar.jar/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030225015424/http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9906/09/jar.jar/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 25, 2003|title=Jar Jar jarring|last=Okwu|first=Michael|date=June 14, 1999|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=July 26, 2016}}</ref> This was cited as a trait that led to criticism of the Gungan species as a racially offensive stereotype or [[caricature]].<ref name="LATimes" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name="CNN" />