Shyriiwook

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Shyriiwook is the guttural, roaring language spoken by the Wookiee species in the Star Wars universe.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Shyriiwook canonical 4
Trade Shyriiwook 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf constructed language in fiction
fictional language
appearsIn Solo: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
surface form: Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
various Star Wars comics
various Star Wars games
various Star Wars novels
associatedSpecies Wookiee
canBeUnderstoodBy Galactic Basic Standard speakers
Han Solo
cannotBeEasilySpokenBy most non-Wookiees
canonicalStatus Star Wars canon
communicationType vocalizations with varied pitch and length
difficultyForHumans very difficult to pronounce accurately
franchise Star Wars
surface form: Star Wars franchise
genre science fiction language
hasDialect Shyriiwook self-linksurface differs
surface form: Trade Shyriiwook

Tree language dialect
languageFamily Wookiee
surface form: Wookiee language family
medium spoken
written
notableHumanInterpreter Han Solo
notableSpeaker Chewbacca
Gungi
Tarfful
primaryUsersHomeworld Kashyyyk
region Kashyyyk
relatedLanguage Thykarann
Xaczik
script Shyriiwook script
spokenBy Chewbacca
Gungi
Tarfful
Wookiee
typicalSoundProfile growling
guttural
roaring
universe Star Wars
usedFor battle cries
everyday communication among Wookiees
rituals and ceremonies
writingSystem alphabetic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chewbacca language Shyriiwook
Wookiee language Shyriiwook
Shyriiwook hasDialect Shyriiwook self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Trade Shyriiwook
Mallatobuck language Shyriiwook
Lumpawaroo language Shyriiwook