Yup, apparently they do! A woman in the audience mentioned they speak Swedish as well.
Hah! That's kind of stupidly awesome, as if Lucas like: well, can't be bothered to invent something new, but if I smoosh a bunch of languages together maybe no one will notice...
The wiki article also reports they speak Tibetan!
I alas don't know anything about the Star Wars books =(.
Neither do I, actually. These aren't books -- they were made-for-TV movies, directed and written by Lucas, with a story set pre-Jedi entirely on Endor. As a child of the eighties I happened to see those (well, the first one, The Ewok Adventure) before the trilogy, and was surprised at the reversal of portrayal -- the meat of the matter being in the TV movies, the Ewoks are shown as powerful and intelligent beings, not helped, by having to shepherd two outsiders (human) through their dangerous world. But I've since read a pretty scathing analysis of the films since, which highlight some, er, potential problems. I think I personally imprinted to early and too deeply (I was five, and I thought the Ewoks were hardcore. So young, and already such a loser.) on the first film to be unbiased, but it's interesting to hear other people's takes.
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Fri, Jun. 1st, 2007 02:16 am (UTC)Hah! That's kind of stupidly awesome, as if Lucas like: well, can't be bothered to invent something new, but if I smoosh a bunch of languages together maybe no one will notice...
The wiki article also reports they speak Tibetan!
I alas don't know anything about the Star Wars books =(.
Neither do I, actually. These aren't books -- they were made-for-TV movies, directed and written by Lucas, with a story set pre-Jedi entirely on Endor. As a child of the eighties I happened to see those (well, the first one, The Ewok Adventure) before the trilogy, and was surprised at the reversal of portrayal -- the meat of the matter being in the TV movies, the Ewoks are shown as powerful and intelligent beings, not helped, by having to shepherd two outsiders (human) through their dangerous world. But I've since read a pretty scathing analysis of the films since, which highlight some, er, potential problems. I think I personally imprinted to early and too deeply (I was five, and I thought the Ewoks were hardcore. So young, and already such a loser.) on the first film to be unbiased, but it's interesting to hear other people's takes.