Huttese/Legends

Huttese was the native language of the Hutts.

Because of the Hutts' commercial and criminal influence throughout the Galaxy, Huttese was the second most common language after Galactic Basic, and served as the Lingua franca for most of the space surrounding the Hutts' territory.

Huttese was so influental that it became also the language of the Rodian race, consisting the Old Rodese obsolete. Huttese seemed to be one of the official languages of Tatooine.

All the Nimbanels were fluent in Huttese, as well as in Basic and their own language, Basic, because their snout structure made them easy to articulate the Huttese language. Understanding the advantages of learning such an important language, the species made it a semi-official language of Nimban.

Toydarians were also usually fluent in Huttese, because the two species had had a long commercial history with each other. They usually preferred to speak Toydarian language rather than Basic but, if Toydarian language is not a choice, they would try Huttese.

Although most Hutts were fluent in spoken and written Basic, they considered Huttese to be a much superior language to Basic, and demanded that "lesser beings" address to them in Huttese.

The Hutts were the owners of three species, Niktos, Klatooinians and Vodrans, since the time of the Third Battle of Vontor. Klatooinians and Vodrans had forfeited their respective languages (Klatooinian language and Vodran language) to replace them with Huttese, being usually illiterate. However, Niktos kept alive the Nikto language during their servitude, learning Huttese only as a second language, and sometimes Basic as a third language. Some Hutts talked with their Nikto servants in Nikto language.

Huttese had many words ending in -a, especially -a(C)a (ex. botaffa), palatalised l (rulya), and expressions formed by duplicated words (rocka rocka, puna puna, chu chu).

Most known words

 * Bo shuda greeting
 * Chuba! 'hey you!'
 * Echuta insult along the lines of 'Go to Hell' or 'Go f*ck yourself'
 * H'chu apenkee greeting
 * Koochoo 'idiot' (also Stoopa)
 * Kung 'scum'
 * Ootmian 'outworlder'
 * Ootman 'outlander'
 * Peedunky 'punk'
 * Poodoo 'fodder'
 * Shag 'slave'
 * Sleemo 'slimeball'
 * Murishani 'Bounty Hunter'
 * Booki 'Boy'
 * Kako Kreespa! 'Burn/fry them!'
 * Achuta 'Hello'
 * Alay 'Late'
 * An 'And'
 * Andoba 'Another'
 * Ateema 'Now'
 * Azalus 'Dangerous'
 * Baatu baatu 'Bother'
 * Backa 'Backstage'
 * Banda 'Music band'
 * Bargon 'Bargain'
 * Bata 'Back'
 * Beesga 'Last fool'
 * Binggona 'Strained'
 * Boska 'Search'
 * Bedwanna 'To buy'
 * Blastoh 'Weapon', 'blaster'
 * Bolla 'To go'
 * Bongo 'Shoulder'
 * Bootana 'Garden(s)'
 * Bota 'Engines'
 * Bukee 'boy'
 * Bu 'The'
 * Bunky dunko 'home'
 * Bunko 'palace'
 * Buttmalia 'A bet'
 * Champio 'Champion'
 * Chawa 'To race'
 * Che 'for'
 * Che copah 'Price'

Counting in Huttese

 * Nobo 0
 * Bo 1
 * Dopa 2
 * Duba 3
 * Fwanna 4
 * K'wanna 5
 * Keeta 6
 * Goba 7
 * Hunto 8
 * Beeska 9
 * Boboba 10
 * Goboba 11
 * Jojoba 12
 * Soboba 13
 * Koboba 14
 * Foboba 15
 * Donocha 16
 * Honocha 17
 * Bohonocha 18
 * Dohonocha 19
 * Duhonocha 20
 * Jujumon 100

Literate

 * Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader
 * Bib Fortuna
 * C-3PO
 * Clezo
 * Ephant Mon
 * Han Solo
 * Nirama
 * Tessek
 * Padmé Amidala
 * Watto
 * Xizor
 * Kitster Banai
 * Wald

Non-literate

 * 4-LOM
 * Passel Argente
 * Jorus C'baoth
 * Chewbacca
 * Dark Woman
 * Dengar
 * Adi Gallia
 * Blackhole
 * Niles Ferrier
 * Guri
 * Kieran Halcyon
 * San Hill
 * Clegg Holdfast
 * Ysanne Isard
 * Mara Jade
 * Wes Janson
 * Dexter Jettster
 * Kyle Katarn
 * Graxol Kelvyyn
 * Ki-Adi-Mundi
 * Plo Koon
 * Lumiya
 * Shu Mai
 * Panaka
 * Firmus Piett
 * Sebulba
 * Aurra Sing
 * Luke Skywalker
 * Leia Organa Solo
 * Elan Sleazebaggano
 * Orn Free Taa
 * Thrawn
 * Lady Valarian
 * Oss Willum
 * Mace Windu
 * Zuckuss

Behind the scenes
The Huttese language was introduced in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In the Special Edition 1997 release of Episode IV, it was adapted for the newly recorded dialogue of Jabba the Hutt.

The dialogue with Greedo was loosely based on the Peruvian language Quechua. This instance of spoken Huttese is unique in the Star Wars universe as it contains palatal clicks as a phoneme. Later appearances resemble more the Aymara dialect.

Most of the alien language spoken in the movies is Huttese. It is also heard in the games Mysteries of the Sith, Phantom Menace (game) and Knights of the Old Republic. In the latter, the dialogues were pre-recorded, in different genders and moods. They of course didn't correspond to the sayings of the subtitles, but were repeated themselves according to the particular mood.