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Legends Canon version → Linked from 57 articles

Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

Cheunh was the official language of the Chiss. It was adopted across Csilla early in Chiss history. Cheunh was a complex, dense tongue that used comparatively few core words and an involved syntax to express ideas; more complicated ideas were expressed by combining related words into a larger whole.

The written form of Cheunh was represented ideographically, and the agglutinative features of the spoken language were reflected in the written form, which combined simpler ideograms to present more complex ideas. The Chiss found the complex nature of their tongue to be a source of pride.

As Humans did not share the same vocal abilities as the Chiss, it was difficult for other species to pronounce it correctly, even after long periods of study. It followed a logical pattern, though, and could be understood after some study.

The Chiss also used Minnisiat and Sy Bisti as lingua franca to trade in the space around their frontiers.

Text and facts from the “Cheunh/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Facts

Users
Chiss
Locations
Chiss Ascendancy
Script
Written Cheunh

Appearances

9 works, in story order
  1. Outbound Flight
  2. The Clone Wars: Secret Missions 2: Curse of the Black Hole Pirates
  3. Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows
  4. Specter of the Past (first appearance)
  5. Vision of the Future
  6. Survivor's Quest
  7. The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant
  8. The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee
  9. Legacy of the Force: Exile

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