About us
In 2005, the computer game Star Wars: Republic Commando
was released. The community of fans of the Star Wars universe took the game extremely positively,
including the fact that for the first time the main characters in a Star Wars game were not Jedi or Sith,
but ordinary soldiers. But it wasn't that that caught our attention, it was the game's great soundtrack
written by composer Jesse Harlin.
These were choral songs sung in the then-defunct Mandalorian language, "Vode An", "Gra'tua Cuun",
"Kote Darasuum", "Dha Werda Verda" and "Ka'rta Tor".
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As it turned out, these pieces of music not only caught our attention, but also the brilliant writer
Karen Traviss, who took on the task of writing a whole series
of books centered on Republic Army clone commandos and their Mandalorian instructors. It was in her
writings that the Mandalorian language, Mando'a, received its main development. Along with examples
of spoken Mandalorian language in the texts of her books, fans received both basic grammar rules and
a small dictionary of the Mandalorian language, which were posted on Karen Traviss's official website.
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But as you know, nothing beautiful lasts forever, and in August 2009, Karen officially announced
that she was stopping all work on a series of novels about the Republican commandos and every
other project related to the Star Wars universe. And this meant that the Mandalorian language would
no longer be developed by the author.
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It was a blow, but the fans refused to accept the fact and took it upon themselves to further expand
and refine the Mandalorian language. Various groups of people from all over the world began to organize
discussions, forums and publications on various Internet platforms on the topic of the further development
of the Mandalorian language. One of the largest centers for work on Mando’a was the
Mandoa.org, forum, organized by a man under the nickname
Adi’karta. More than 500 people from all over the world have made
great efforts to ensure that the language survives and continues to develop. The dictionary was replenished,
the grammar was expanded and refined, the fans tried to communicate in Mando’a on a variety of topics,
including absolutely everyday ones.
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And we've been there, and worked with the most wonderful people, truly dedicated to the preservation
and development of the Mandalorian language. Based on the work of members of the
Mandoa.org forum, a guide to Mando’a was compiled, better known as
“MANDO'A. TOTAL GUIDE TO MANDALORIAN LANGUAGE”.
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A lot has changed since then, with fans divided, and the community split into separate factions
multiple times, as a result of which Mando'a has developed along completely separate branches,
while retaining the common foundation created by Karen Traviss. So we can safely say that a single
language was gradually fragmented into separate dialects, as is often the case with real, natural languages.
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Here we present to you one of these dialects, namely the dialect of the Rusk clan, created by
Tal'jair Rusk, Daraya Rusk,
Arden Dio, Anton Vizla,
Parj Bevur and others.
Fans of the Mandalorian culture from the Aay'han Discord server
provided invaluable assistance in the development of the dialect.
\a mando!