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How the Ewok language was built from real dialects

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Nothing says 'primitive alien moon' quite like splicing together actual dialects from Earth's highest altitudes. Burtt interviewed a Tibetan woman and an elderly Kalmyk woman, chopped up their speech patterns, and pitched them up to create the adorable jibberish of the murder-bears that toppled the Galactic Empire.

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