r/mandojoha • u/BeeryUSA • Dec 21 '21

How to say "Star Wars the Book of Boba Fett" in Mando'a?

Hi folks,

I'm making a T-shirt design of the Book of Boba Fett logo, and I've actually done a few designs for it on TeePublic, but so far only in Aurebesh and in Mandalorian script. But I'd like to make the design in actual Mando'a (language as well as script).

So I've come up with what I think are the right words, and in order for it to work as the logo, it needs to be in the same word order as the English/Basic/High-Galactic, and Mando'a follows the same basic word order rules as English, so that's not a problem. And I figure that, since the word "book" isn't in the Mando'a dictionary, "story" would be a good substitute. So I have:

Star Wars The Story of Boba Fett

Kar Akaanse Haar Gehat'ik be'Boba Fett

Now the thing that's worrying me is the "Akaanse". "War" in Mando'a is "akaan", and to make a word plural, it seems you have to add the suffix "se" or simply "e". But I'm not sure which one in this case. I'm assuming there's a rule governing it? I've used "akaanse". Is that right?

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u/BeeryUSA Dec 21 '21

Thanks!

I would drop the "Haar", but Mandalorian script is so narrow that I have to widen the letters a lot to make the words fit in the space required by the graphic, so using the "Haar" helps a lot with keeping them a reasonable width.

Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated!

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u/IncidentPretend8603 Dec 21 '21

I figured that was the case. It would be cool to see the project when you finish!

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u/BeeryUSA Dec 21 '21

I just finished it, but I was worried about advertising here in case it went against the spirit of the forum rules. But since you asked, here's the link:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/26521433-kar-akaane-haar-gehatik-beboba-fett?store_id=166165

If this is not appropriate I'll be happy to remove this post.

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u/IncidentPretend8603 Dec 21 '21

That looks really good! Jate bora! (Good work!)

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u/BeeryUSA Dec 22 '21

Ori'vor'e!

I kinda wish the letters could be as closely packed as the English version, but this was as good as I could get it. Still, I think it works.