Lots of people argue that in the SW galaxy there might be a group of humans that could be roughly be assimilated to Latinx people and I have nothing against this idea nor the idea of space Latinx speaking space Spanish.
But every time I read a fic where Poe Dameron speaks Spanish and say it's Yavinese it just makes me grit my teeth. - Neither Kes nor Shara have been born on Yavin IV
- Kes and Shara settled there during the last months of the OT war. Their place is described as a "fledging colony", indicating that it has been established recently - after the Rebel Alliance left. Poe is probably part of the first generation of humans to have been born and raised on Yavin IV since the Massassi likely disappeared.
- In canon, thousands of years ago there were people - the Massassi - living on Yavin IV, and they were slaves to a Sith Lord or something. These guys could be speaking Yavinese but 1)we have no idea if they're still alive, and probably aren't 2)why would the Rebel Alliance set up their secret base on a planet full of innocent civilians when there are plenty of empty habitable planets
- Even by accepting that the Massassi are still alive, why would Shara and Kes teach Poe as his maternal language Yavinese, instead of what likely would be their first language (so, space Spanish)
- Assuming that Yavinese is actually the language called in the colony because somehow it's entirely made up of space Latinx speaking space Spanish, it still makes no sense for the language to be called Yavinese. The United States have been a thing for 400 years and people here still call the language English, not "American." Brazilian people don't speak Brazilian, they speak a dialect of Portuguese but it's still Portuguese. The dialect established itself after several generations of people being more and more removed from the language's country of origin. So for a young colony like Yavin IV it still makes even less sense to say "oh yeah we're all speaking space Spanish and live on Yavin IV, therefore now we shall say we speak Yavinese."
Space Spanish as Yavinese makes no sense
But every time I read a fic where Poe Dameron speaks Spanish and say it's Yavinese it just makes me grit my teeth.
- Neither Kes nor Shara have been born on Yavin IV
- Kes and Shara settled there during the last months of the OT war. Their place is described as a "fledging colony", indicating that it has been established recently - after the Rebel Alliance left. Poe is probably part of the first generation of humans to have been born and raised on Yavin IV since the Massassi likely disappeared.
- In canon, thousands of years ago there were people - the Massassi - living on Yavin IV, and they were slaves to a Sith Lord or something. These guys could be speaking Yavinese but 1)we have no idea if they're still alive, and probably aren't 2)why would the Rebel Alliance set up their secret base on a planet full of innocent civilians when there are plenty of empty habitable planets
- Even by accepting that the Massassi are still alive, why would Shara and Kes teach Poe as his maternal language Yavinese, instead of what likely would be their first language (so, space Spanish)
- Assuming that Yavinese is actually the language called in the colony because somehow it's entirely made up of space Latinx speaking space Spanish, it still makes no sense for the language to be called Yavinese. The United States have been a thing for 400 years and people here still call the language English, not "American." Brazilian people don't speak Brazilian, they speak a dialect of Portuguese but it's still Portuguese. The dialect established itself after several generations of people being more and more removed from the language's country of origin. So for a young colony like Yavin IV it still makes even less sense to say "oh yeah we're all speaking space Spanish and live on Yavin IV, therefore now we shall say we speak Yavinese."