Languages

Sardaukar

Origin

[TODO review since Dune wiki does not credit this work]

Speech

Film Dialogue

While working on Dune: Part One (2021), Mark Mangini voiced the Sardaukar Bashar and soldiers, and he composed the Sardaukar language. (blog)

• Conversation between the Bashar and Piter de Vries (Interview):

Gur ozh baka tsi Why does the Baron need us?
Dash Harkadi gokolshow dat Atreidkish Harkonnens outnumber the Atreides.
Chut a pit Not captioned: 3 to 1
Shta du kimouh nats Not captioned: Still you come to us.
??? We are the Sardaukar.
Tsit ebukar pade The Emperor's blades.
Osat koo tsak akes ta fadh Those who stand against use fall.
??? The Emperor commands it.
??? It is done.

• Sardaukar stabbing Idaho (Not captioned, but confirmed by Mangini.)

Mada, Eedahoe
Die, Idaho

[TODO mention throat singing]

In-game dialogue

• Bator Dakkar's dialogue during the The Fall of the Proteus

?? You!
?? Outlaw scrum!
?? I watched your men take their last tortured breaths as they hung on the walls of Arsunt.
?? They died badly.
?? (final words prior to death)

Insights: Magini's pronunciation of "die" sounds different between the game and the film.

• Sardaukar alarm during the Forty Fears journey

Skapsone nav thas ??
Trudest opor ehdam shi furth ??
Vac shi! Tscape po! ?? (possible: escape pod)
Saduka, vacoo! Fi war. Vacdi! ??

Insight: "Trudest" and "furth" are German words.

[TODO verify alignment with Mangini's foundation.] [TODO translate in-game Sardaukar in-game murals if any and dialogue from Journeys]

Written

Dune: Part One (2021)

In Dune: Part One (2021), Block numbers are written on the Bashar's forehead:.
When read upright: 89183?
When read upside down: 012345

In the same film, a Sardaukar, which fights Duncan Idaho in an abandoned testing station, also has block numbers on his forehead:
When read upright: ?9183?
When read upside down: 01234?

Insight: Prisoners are shown to be hung upside down on Salusa Secundus within this film. The branding foreheads may have also occurred while each prisoner was hung this way. [TODO Document why prisoners are hung upside down]

Galach

Block letters and numbers

Numbers

Block numbers are used in the From the Ashes Journey and those used to classify mining tiers: Copper - Tier 1, Iron - Tier 2, etc.

Cosmetics

Block text engraved in the Memorial Plaque beta reward is reads In memory of the bases we lost.
Block text shown on Extravagant Holographic Room Sign, which is part of the Gift of the Sands Cosmetic Pack, reads Strategy Room.

Contract Boards

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The contract boards at Tradeposts and settlements all contain the same message.

Early text Former text in early 2025 (Magda Germano is credited as a Senior 3D Artist)

MAGDA GERMANO

??????...??

20,268

ACCEPT DECLINE

Current text

CONTRACT

THE BEARER OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO HUNT DOWN AND KILL A BUNCH OF USELESS SEMUTA SNIFFING BASTARDS IN THE OLD DESERT BOTANICAL STATION UP ON CHALKIN RID[G]E.

TWO THINGS. FIRST KILL THEM. AND THEN BURN THE SUPPLY OF TAINTED SEMUTA THAT KEEPS MAKING MY CUSTOMERS SICK AND WORSE UNDERCUTTING MY PRICES.

DO THAT AND [I] WILL SEND YOU SOME OF MY CHEMICALS.

20,268

ACCEPT DECLINE

Insights

• Semuta: Narcotic derived from elacca wood, also named the Elacca drug.
• Chalkin Ridge: The location is currently unknown. Also, there is no contract/journey mentioning tainted Semuta.

Hannivar's bar map

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A Map is shown within Hannivar's bar that can be translated to:

Lankiveil (map)

• Northern Ice sheet
• Veritas
• Mt Rabban
• Spaceport
• Veritas
• Shallow water Bjondac whale graveyard
• Southern Ice Sheet
• ???
• ???
• ???
• ???

?????...??

Museum Panels

Within The Museum Testing Station, panels are located for several exhibits. All three panels contain identical block numbers and text, which read:

 HH-40236 (Title)
 N?-14730 (First line)
 GB-77624 (Second line)
 PB-81996 (Footnote)

First panel

First panel lit

Second panel lit

Third panel lit

Insights During the A Sign From Above journey, the Player enters container HH-40236 on board the Wreck of the Hephaestus and finds three items.

Cursive

Note : The cursive writing style shown on an Atreides poster and inside Atreides ship wrecks appears different separate from the block text and numbers. [TODO Document the difference]

Arrakeen Poster

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A written poster in Arrakeen reads:

Ducal decree By the grace of Duke Leto of House Atreides

Reminder to all soldiers keep the comunal spaces in the ship clean desert mouses are a plague and might bring deseases

To guarantee a good hygiene environment is paramount Atreides Atreides Atreides

Map of Caladan

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[TODO: describe location of Caladan map on Wreck and translate, mention map in Books]

[TODO: verify if the Slavers logo is represents Galach letters]] [TODO: what language do the Harokennen speak? Mark Mangini voiced the lines of the servant next to Baron]

Chakobsa

[TODO]