Gunganese

Gunganese
Users	Gungans

"I am saving you the trouble of embarrassing yourself with all the meesa meesa bantha poodoo. Just don't."

―Aro N'cookaala, to Han Solo

Gunganese, also known as Gungan or Old Gungan, was the native language of the Gungans, an amphibious species from Naboo. In practice, the Gungans often used a pidgin tongue that combined Galactic Basic Standard with Gunganese words and speech patterns. Although stereotyped as exclusively using the pidgin, some Gungans, like Aro N'cookaala, spoke perfect Basic.

Examples

"There be some bombad clankens coming this way."
"Yeah— What? Bombad clankens?"

―Jar Jar Binks and Clone Commander Stone

• Heyo Dalee ("Hello")
• Mackineek ("Droid")
• Flasher (Blaster)

Behind the scenes

In Star Wars Legends sources, the term "Gunganese" was applied to the Gungan-accented pidgin Basic rather than the native Gungan language, which in turn was referred to as "Old Gungan."

Appearances

• The High Republic: Tempest Runner (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (First appearance)
• "Raiders of the Lost Gundark" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 18 (First identified as Old Gungan)
• Last Shot
• Last Shot audiobook
• Force Collector
• Force Collector audiobook
• Join the Resistance
• Join the Resistance: Attack on Starkiller Base (Mentioned only)

Sources

• Nexus of Power (First mentioned)
• Star Wars: Aliens of the Galaxy (First identified as Gunganese)
• Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
• Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
• Rise of the Separatists
• Every Language in Star Wars Movies | Star Wars By the Numbers on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (content now obsolete; backup link)
• "Naboo" — Star Wars Encyclopedia

Notes and references

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