Author Steve Perry Talks Origin of Predator Language & How To Correctly Pronouce Yautja!

[SiL]

I understand, so he wasn't commissioned to write a novel. I don't know how it usually works. So whether a studio commissions someone to write a novel or whether the author asks for it.
If he is the inventor of the word Yautja, that was a very long time ago and was therefore generally recognized.
As a fan I have to accept it or ignore it.

He was commissioned to write a novel. He was not put in charge of Predators. He was not asked to come up with a name for them - just the opposite. He has no particular authority.

[Neila]

I understand, so he wasn't commissioned to write a novel. I don't know how it usually works. So whether a studio commissions someone to write a novel or whether the author asks for it.
If he is the inventor of the word Yautja, that was a very long time ago and was therefore generally recognized.
As a fan I have to accept it or ignore it.

He was commissioned to write a novel. He was not put in charge of Predators. He was not asked to come up with a name for them - just the opposite. He has no particular authority.

The term exists, but I don't necessarily think that any Predator media is obliged to use it.  I think it could be easily replaced by another word, especially in the movies where no character has ever been impressed to actually name them (besides calling them predators, hunters, etc.)

I would actually be interested to see to what extent the studio addresses such situations.
As far as I know, Yautja don't appear in any films. (?)
If the Predator universe is expanded, it could be that they want to introduce the correct name at some point.
Will the studio then say, OK, we have the novels that already have that name in them, so let's just use it, or will something completely new come along and cancel the whole thing, so to speak.
something similar could happen in the Alien universe and that already happened with the prequels

[Corporal Hicks]

Yautja did nearly appear in a written form in The Predator. They were going to do a title scroll kind of thing.

[Kailem]

The Upgrade says it to Fugitive when they face off as well, it's just not translated in the subtitles. It's the first word he speaks before he says "tell me where it is."

Personally I've always pronounced it "yowt-juh" (which is how it sounds in that scene too). I know Steve Perry came up with the name, but this feels like a bit of a "gif is supposed to be pronounced jiff" situation. There's a bit too much emphasis on "OOOOOT!" there for me.

[Corporal Hicks]

The Upgrade says it to Fugitive when they face off as well, it's just not translated in the subtitles. It's the first word he speaks before he says "tell me where it is."

Urgh. You're going to make me rewatch scenes from this movie...

[Kailem]

No need to do that! Just a couple of seconds. It's at around the 21 second mark here (though it looks like this version doesn't have the subtitles):

[Corporal Hicks]

Okay, I hear it. Yeah.

[Neila]

Thanks for your information, guys.
It's hard to hear because the Pred has rough slang
but it could be the word.

[St_Eddie]

I pronounce it as "Predator".  There is no "Yautja" within my dojo.

[[cancerblack]]

I read it as "yaat-cha" but I don't think I've ever verbalised it without my eyes nearly rolling out of my head and doing a silly voice.

[Local Trouble]

"Yautja" doesn't bother me nearly as much as "Xenomorph" does.

[BigDaddyJohn]

Xenomorph is at least used in a movie. Yautja I always thought was weird.

[Local Trouble]

It sounded dumb in the movie too.  A fitting word for Gorman to use when he was showing the audience what a pedantic dickhead he is, but that's all.

[Immortan Jonesy]

[Samhain13]

Xenomorphs was used in so many stuff like even avp2 that i got used to it, "aliens" can refer to more than the aliens we know.

Yautja or hish never sounded good to me and made me cringe, I suppose it make sense that the preds are not gonna call themselves predator or hunters like humans refer to them in many media but idk some stuff is better to not know.