20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope

Away from the human stars of the show, George Lucas' first adventure in the galaxy far, far away also brought with it a whole host of distinct alien species that fans would ultimately get to know rather well over the decades.

In order to create the unique voices and languages of a number of these brand new alien creations, the minds behind A New Hope decided to use some real-life inspiration in a number of cases.

When it comes to the Jawas found scavenging on Tatooine, it turns out that the language you hear them speaking is based on the African language of Zulu, with sound designer Ben Burtt speeding up the dialogue spoken by the actors in post-production.

Elsewhere, the person who may or may not have shot Han Solo first on Mos Eisley by the name of Greedo was speaking the language of Quechua, a native language of South America.

So, those alien voices likely sounded quite familiar to certain folks around the globe.