Star Wars RPG Campaign Setting (2019 & 2020) - Reactivated for May the 4th 2022 - Re-opened 2024
Interlude - Mando'a and Mandalorians
A brief history of the Mandalorian (taken from Wookieepedia)
Mandalorians were a distinct human, clan-based people who originated on the planet Mandalore and its moon, Concordia. They had a particularly unique role in galactic history as legendary warriors against the Jedi. From their homeworld, Mandalorians had flourished across Mandalorian Space and the galaxy at large, colonising worlds such as Kalevala, Krownest, and Concord Dawn.
Mandalore had a largely martial history, but since the Mandalorian Civil War, pacifist sentiment had begun to emerge and by the time of the Clone Wars, a pacifist and reformist New Mandalorian political faction, led by Duchess Satine Kryze of House Kryze, became the official ruling body of Mandalore. Despite enduring decades of peace, conflict persisted between the New Mandalorian government and factions such as Death Watch, who wanted Mandalore to return to the warrior ways of the past. Such conflict led to another civil war that toppled the ruling Kryze dynasty, but culminated in the occupation by the Galactic Republic.
“So far I speak Mando’a and basic…”
―Sabine Wren writes about the languages she knows in her journal
Mando’a was the language of the people native to the planet Mandalore. Its written form was known as Mandalorian. The Mandalorian artist and demolitions expert Sabine Wren was fluent in Mando’a as well as several other languages including Galactic Basic, Huttese, Aqualish, Rodese and some Shyriiwook.
Vocabulary
- Akaanir — Fight
- Cubikahd (or cu’bikad) — A holographic strategy game
- Jai’galaar — Shriek-hawk
- Jai’galaara’la sur’haii’se — Shriek-hawk eyes
- Naak — Peace
- Naastar — Destroy
- Beskar’gam — Armor
- Mand’alor — Leader
- Narudar — Your enemy’s enemy
- Kyr’tsad — Death Watch
- Elek — “Yes”
- Vor Entye — “Thank you”
- Su cuy’gar — “Hello”
- Shuk’orok — “Crushgaunts”
- Uj’alayi — A traditional sweet cake
- Tiingilar — Spicy Mandalorian stew, presumed to mean “eat at your own risk” by Strono Tuggs
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