Well i KNOW it isn't the German Jemish immigrants from WWII, though they will have slightly contributed. Lexicon is something which usually take several centuies to build up.
I think you'll find it's got more to do with the fact that our royal family is part german... and language affectations tend to be a lot older than 50-60 years old. It will have come from trade in the 1700s and so on.
And this is the problem with Lucas not bothering to help when the EU books are written... he just magically conjures up a whole new planet for his purposes.
Guys this isn't MSN... I think i average something like 14 posts a day on my other forum. Anyway, Endor... why did the Alliance bother sending capital ships?
I suppose we'd be working up to the briefing for the assault on the DS1 wouldn't we? Bear in mind that they weren't called RS unitl after that. Before then they were just Red Squadron.