Why even conlang if not for:
The smallest Mirialan Mace has ever met—short of hatchlings seen from afar on Miriala—is called Luminara Unduli and she has the bright green scales and loves nothing more than the monthly tea parties held by the other Mirialans. She goes to every one, and chatters about them to Mace as best she can in a combination of [?] and halting Mussnara.
Mace already knew that Mirialans struggled with learning sounds, but talking to a youngling makes it that much clearer how difficult it makes learning a spoken language.
Luminara is learning Signed Mussnara and Written Mussnara at a rapid pace, her visual memory helping her expand her vocabulary by dozens of words a day with ease. Her Spoken, though, is full of short, simple words and stumbling sentences. Some of her elders only know Signed and Written, having forgone Spoken entirely.
Mace only picked up enough to get by as a traveler on Miriala. Luminara’s pace is perfect for him to pick up a little more, even as her pronunciation makes him wince.
She struggles with the L sound most of all, pronouncing her own name more like Aominara Ondua than Luminara Unduli.
Mace coaches her from recordings of Mussnara and from his own memory. “Don’t let the tip of your tongue touch the roof of your mouth, only the very back, then try to make the same sound you would if it was the tip of your tongue. Llllll,” He demonstrates.
“Gllllu,” she says. “Gllu, glllllu.”
“Very close,” he praises, “Try it in context. Lllllluminnara.”
“Gllylluminnara. Lllylluminnara”
“Undullllli.”
“Ondulllllee.” “Undullli.” “Oundugli.” She tosses her head and goes again, “Oundullllihh. Oundullih. Undullihh”
“Very good.”
Luminara perks up at that and says, “Mace Uihndu catolllyl.”
Mace quirks a smile. “Luminnara Unduli catol. Off'fos catol.”
Mace Windu exsits by the will of the Force; Luminara Unduli exists by the will of the Force; We both exist by the will of the Force.
(Luminara is 3 and she's doing great at being a polyglot)
Notes:
My Mirialans are reptiles with basically eidetic visual memory and pretty shit sound memory.
Signed Mussnara, Spoken Mussnara, and Written Mussnara are closely related via their roots, but still all different languages which are all in use by the same people group(s), with Signed slightly outpacing Spoken in everyday use. “Mussnara” literally means “people communication,” and could easily be translated to mean “language” depending on context.
The "L sound" Luminara is mainly working on here is the voiced velar lateral approximant, aka /ʟ/. What Mace says above is my legitimate advice for how to pronounce it.
Catol is the verb to exist (cat, pronounced tsat, not 😺), with the suffix -ol which attached to a verb to mean "by the will of the Force" (technically it's "by the will of Myrtra," the Mussnara word for the same entity/force, but which implies Mirialan interpretations rather than Jedi ones, expect of course this is Mussnara as spoken by Mirialan Jedi, so they're using Jedi interpretations, aka the Force, not Myrtra).
In dialogue, Luminara is spelled Luminnara, with two Ns. This is because of the phonetic spellings of Mussnara & its syllable structures. Outside of dialogue I chose to spell it the canon way to avoid confusion and show how it gets pronounced by the uninitiated lol.
Off'fos is translated as "we," but it's a little more complicated than that. Mace learned mainly very formal Mussnara, and so doesn't have a very detailed grasp on subject pronouns and the formality levels. Off'fos is the formal-formal we, aka the one you use when you're talking to someone who you're formal with about someone you're formal with. On Mirial, he'd actually be using the right one, since he and Luminara aren't actually that close yet, however Mirialan Jedi all tend to use the familiar-familiar pronouns for one another, since Jedi label one another family (and other reasons).
The [?] I left in was intentional, and refers to a conlang-in-progress that doesn't yet have a name (or much else) due to so much research that still needs doing.