Learn Mando'a

Hm. Precisely what do you mean by 1:1?

Interesting choice. So "Watcher?" I need some help as well actually. I need a word for "struggle." I'm tempted to use akaan, but would real Mandalorians use "war" flexibly like that, or would they have many ways of expressing the nuances of different kinds of conflict? For context, I'm trying to tra...

A'nu Biss wrote:Unless you mean double-vowel for ALL stressed syllables?

Pretty much, or at least where it matters. If double vowels were once used to show stress, that ended a long time ago. I've been experimenting with spelling and it helps

I had a thought. Could we use double vowels as a mnemonic for stress? That could make pronunciation easier to memorize and preserve the double-voweley feel of the language

Tal'jair has an excellent Excel document that I use as my main source for Mando'a, and he suggests urman'alor as the word for priest/preacher, from urman - belief; culture - and alor - leader, chief, "officer", constable, boss; Chancellor. I've spent a few minutes looking through the file and lookin...

Taljair te Mir'ad wrote:My latest updated vocabulary. Still work in progress though.

Vor entye for this work; it's come in very handy many times so far, and I'm sure will continue to.

Have you considered hosting this spreadsheet in Google Sheets instead of/in addition to Excel?

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