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  2. Lightsaber - Wikipedia

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    Lightsabers can also deflect blaster bolts, allowing a wielder with Jedi reflexes to turn an enemy's own gunfire against them. An active lightsaber gives off a distinctive hum, which rises in pitch and volume as the blade is moved rapidly through the air. Bringing the blade into contact with another lightsaber's blade produces a loud crackle.

  3. List of language creators - Wikipedia

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    Language creators whose work has been published in books or other media that they created: Richard Adams: Lapine, in Watership Down; M.A.R. Barker: Tsolyáni for Tékumel; Hector Berlioz; Marion Zimmer Bradley; Anthony Burgess: Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange and a prehistoric language in Quest for Fire. Samuel R. Delany

  4. List of constructed languages - Wikipedia

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    In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language. New York: Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 9780385527880. OCLC 321034148. Reprinted as: ——— (2010). In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius. New York ...

  5. Ben Burtt - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Burtt Jr. (born July 12, 1948) is an American sound designer, film director, film editor, screenwriter, and voice actor.As a sound designer, his credits include the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), WALL-E (2008), and Star Trek (2009).

  6. Languages in Star Wars - Wikipedia

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    Language development was approached as sound design and was handled by Ben Burtt, sound designer for both the original and prequel trilogies.He created the alien dialogue out of existing non-English language phrases and their sounds, such as Quechua for Greedo in the original Star Wars film and Haya for the character Nien Nunb in Return of the Jedi. [1]

  7. Origin of language - Wikipedia

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    The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries.Scholars wishing to study the origins of language draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition, and comparisons between human language and systems of animal ...

  8. Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel - Wikipedia

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    Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel is a 2015 documentary hosted by Mark Hamill. [ 2 ] The documentary covers the inspirations and influences that shaped the legendary lightsaber in the Star Wars universe and the duels in which the device is used.

  9. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

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    The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...