English Alphabet in STAR WARS?
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2020
- You might think that the English alphabet doesn't exist in the Star Wars universe, but it's actually a very common writing system onscreen! Let's explore instances of visible English in Star Wars!
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I’m pretty sure the Latin alphabet is called “High Galactic” in lore.
Just did some research on that. Ezra Bridger's journal is written in English, and is canonically "High Galactic." In the far superior Legends continuity, it's basically the language of rich snobs, which would explain why it's found on so much Imperial equipment.
Yeah, I think Eckshart already went over it.
To be fair, star wars did come first though may have not named the language yet
@@lonewarri0r237 as far as I know, in universe Latin alphabet is called Tion alphabet (at least according to Legends material) - and while aurabesh is like Latin alphabet, Tion alphabet is like Greek alphabet (from position of West/Central Europe)
I like that the Galaxy's Edge theme park (for very obvious real world reasons) tends to display both Aurebesh and English lettering side by side. It could be canonically explained that due to the diverse travelers to Batuu, the space port has both Aurebesh and High Galactic to aid navigation for visitors.
Also I remember the now Legends KOTOR had stuff like Aurek Wings, suggesting that over several thousand years of ship design they did all the Aurebesh letter names first before going to High Galactic in later years, ensuring nobody would mistake an Aurek Wing for an A-Wing per-se.
Wait, if the syringe is in ml it means Empire is metric not Imperial :D
Lol
Even in the US all medical devices are in metric. Alot more metric is used in the US than you think, it just gets translated out for the consumer market.
😂😂😂
As it should be
Lol
My take away from this is that the X-Wing has a stereo.
What else would be cranking out the sound track as luke flew around.
The landspeeder had an 8-track player in it and the X-Wing set peice had a real radio in it Mark Hamil famously listened to the Rolling Stones on
The Auralnauts need to be told this now !!
What does it play? Lo-fi hip hop beats to chill and blast imps to?
Or maybe some Jizz?
Lol
I mean, English letter names are also spoken out loud too: "TK421, why aren't you at your post?"
“FN-2187, who gave you permission to remove that helmet” for a more recent example.
Isnt all basic in star wars just dubbed in english?
The justification for that is the same as Tolkien fantasy, what we as an audience read or hear isn't what's actually being said by the characters it's just being translated into English
@@jeremyalexander135 Not really, both alphabets exist in the Star Wars universe. The Latin alphabet is called High Galactic and is the alphabet used by those of the upper class and presumably those of certain professions. The common alphabet is Aurebesh.
In Aurabesh ... "Trill Krill 421", "Forn Nern 2187", "Resh Two Dorn Two" and "Cresh Three Peth Osk"
Some of these might sound better, but most of them just sound stupid.
English writing does exist in canon in star wars. It is called High Galactic Standard and is only used by the super rich and high upper class. Darth Sidious signed all his orders in english and even wrote a few letter in it. Because most, including the jedi, could not read it.
Plenty of Jedi could read and write in High Galactic Standard. Case in point: the Legends book "The Jedi Path" was a textbook used in-universe by Jedi Iniciates and Padawans and was published in High Galactic Standard, and its hand-written comments were made in High Galactic as well.
You do realize those are just geeks who invent those stories on the internet. They're not canon. There's no such thing as "high galactic" in star wars lore.
And no, the english language does not exist in star wars since the story takes place in a different galaxy far away from our own.
@Benji 64
Ummm no it isn't.
But it does ruin the films. Even when it isn't.
People like you have to watch red letter media's " The top ten things YOU didn't know about Darth Vader's suit! "
It's the funniest thing I've seen in years.
@Benji 64 Bubba I don't know what YOU personally consider "canon" and I don't care. I'm not here to discuss the word "canon" with you cause it's a pointless conversation.
For me anything that contradicts with the original 6 films made by Lucas himself is not canon.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far far away"
That's what it says. READ!
Can't you read? It''s not rocket science buttercup.
@Benji 64 Nah, actually it does contradict everything. What on earth are you talking about.
"earthly things"?
Genius boy do you even know what "earthly" means?
There's also the fact that Luke's lightsaber has "NEW YORK" inscribed on the base...
Everything comes from Queens apparently
That's where the Graflex camera flash used to make Luke's lightsaber was made.
I heard that its kind of a class-based writing system in Star Wars. So the really rich people who owned Kuat and Incom and whatnot would name some of their fighters after characters in a writing system only they were really aware of, since the common-man wrote in aurebesh. Perhaps english is an older writing system; since we already know ships like the Lamda-class are named after Greek letters.
My personal favourite theory is that its a writing system solely used in the industrial sphere of Star Wars, kind of comparable to JavaScript or C++ in our world. Thats why you see it only on technology that engineers (like the ones in charge of the Death Star's superlaser) would be using, as well as other tech and industry stuff like the computer screens we see, droid names (why isnt R2 called Resh-2 Dorn-2? Same with 3PO?), medical equipment (like the one we see on the interrogation droid), and the naming of ships. Since most of these things would only need to be read by engineers, tech enthusiasts, robotics specialists, and other droids (R2's writing in the xwing), the english alphabet is used.
TL;DR english is aurebesh for engineers and droids
aurebesh really just means alphabet, in the same way alphabet is "alpha, beta, ..etc." In Star Wars they speak Basic.
Ill just consider this canon, no one at lucas film will care enough to explain it any way.
@@Plasmacore_V ya i know, i was just trying to explain the discrepancy between the two languages
@@bundleization thanks bro
You don't understand. They *aren't* two languages, they're two different alphabets for the same language, Basic, which is literally English.
i like the implication this video makes that the x-wing canonically has a tape deck on it. Rebels are too cheap to up-spec to the model with the 6 disk CD Changer.
TIE fighters didn't even get a tape deck. Just AM radio for them. Cheep imperials.
For the time that tape deck would have been the shit. X-Wing jocks got only the best. I bet the Y-Wing drivers had to make do with an 8 Track.
1:56 That's actually looks like assembly instruction, after the THX (likely a nod to the THX sound brand (Edit: its actually a reference to THX 1138, George Lucas first full length film)) its
JMP - a instruction to jump to a line in the code
BNE - branch if not equal
BNE - again
LDA - load register A
Second row
BPL - Branch if plus
BMI - Branch i minus
BVC - Branch if overflow clear
BCC - Branch if carry is set
BCS - Branch if carry is set
These instructions match what is used by the Commodore 64: www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Category:Machine_language_instruction
THX isn't an instruction (closest match is TAX or TSX), so I could be wrong. Though if it's really C64 assembly then the Death Star had a C64 running some system somewhere!
But some other person probably figured this out waaaay before me...
Star Wars computers are programmed in Assembly? Now that's pretty cool.
It actually even says THX 1138 in that shot.
Former C64 programmer here, I'm pretty sure this is just an interesting coincidence, it doesn't match the format of assembly instruction, which would look something like this:
START CMP #87 ;W - up
BEQ UP
CMP #83 ;S - down
BEQ DOWN
CMP #65 ;A - left
BEQ LEFT
CMP #68 ;D - right
BEQ RIGHT
CMP ENTER ;end if enter clicked
BEQ END
JMP SCAN
UP LDY SP0Y
DEY
STY SP0Y
JMP SCAN
DOWN LDY SP0Y
INY
STY SP0Y
JMP SCAN
LEFT LDX SP0X
DEX
STX SP0X
CPX #255
BNE SCAN
LDA #0
STA MSBX
JMP SCAN
RIGHT LDX SP0X
INX
STX SP0X
CPX #255
BNE SCAN
LDA #1
STA MSBX
JMP SCAN
;clean up at the end
END JSR CLEAR
LDA #0
STA ENABLE
RTS
Never knew about that THX 1138 on that screen on the Death Star, very neat
I just noticed that as well! Easter egg!
Great film
Yeah, THX-1138 is plastered all over the place in Lucasfilm productions. Probably where Pixar got the whole A113 easter egg thing from.
The Greek Alphabet is also in Star Wars, particularly in the names of Cygnus Spaceworks deisgns such as the Lambda-class shuttle. In legends, this was explained by calling the alphabet the ancient "Tionese" alphabet
I believe in Legends the English alphabet was Old High Galactic, akin to somewhere between Latin and Cuneiform. This is the first I've seen of Arabic text in the GFFA though!
Hell there is even Greek, in the form of Old Tionese. Lambda class shuttle comes to mind, as does the various squads like Delta and Omega.
The Arabic is just graffiti from the set location in Tunisia...
Was there something about English letters being used to appeal to the in universe market of the starfighters? I feel like I remember some obscure lore like this .
Yes, in Legends, Galactic Basic had two alphabets (similar to Japanese, which infamously uses katakana, hirigana, and kanji together, many times all in the same sentence): Aurebesh for common, casual use, and High Galactic Basic, which was used for high-class marketing, as well as for written signatures, and legal documents.
Luke listens to cassette tapes while flying his X-Wing!?!?
He goes on some pretty long trips in that thing.
I wanted that to be a thing in my story. I’d call this vindication! Or Validation.
There's a Pilot in Alphabet Squadron who has holotapes(or some similar name, might be discs) and jams to music in a B-Wing going into battle. so It isn't far fetched that Luke has some of his own jams. I like to imagine he's got a tape full of Figrin D'an and The Modal Nodes.
C.Y.N.I.C.Union I know a battle’s probably not a great time to be listening to music, but I wonder what he’d be listening to in a dogfight if he could do that?
I"m picturing Luke listening to some Boston on long flights! =D
Also you know... IG-88 and IG-11, C3P0, R2-D2. All of these serial numbers have English letters in them, whether or not they're written out in Aurebesh is kind of irrelevant, the characters use the letter names when they say their names.
But that's just my 2 cents.
Latin. We use a Latin alphabet, not English.
Point taken.
Off the wall fan theory time:
Most events in Star Wars actually happened, but the information was beamed directly into George Lucas' brain by the Whills. This explains why certain alphabets, as well as numerical systems and schemes are so similar to what we know here on Earth. Hours, Minutes, and Seconds are all based on our localized day; the concept of measuring lengths in meters and kilometers; you get the picture.
their transmission must have been interrupted when they tried to send the prequel era and it came out all distorted
@@NitpickingNerd Nah, the transmissions just went to the authors of the EU books, instead. It's why George sold Lucasfilm: he didn't know how to make the sequels because he never got the transmissions.
It's weird that in A New Hope the buttons on the death star are labeled but after that movie star wars was full of random flashing buttons with no labels
Weird in-universe, sure, but it just makes things easier for the production designers that you don't have to think about what everything does all the time and then translate everything into aurebesh.
Imagine trying to fire a canon but accidentally deactivate the ships sheilds or something
So technically the British empire took over the galaxy
They wanted spices
We’re ALWAYS the evil empire. Bloody Hollywood….
@@watchm4ker our accents sound more intimidating than Americans
1:55 THX-1138 was an earlier project by George Lucas. The name shows up in a lot of Star Wars easter eggs.
In the original novelisation of Star Wars by Alan Dean Foster, THX-1138 is used where it's TK427 in the film. Either way, that stormtrooper is still not at his post. 🤭
Ooops, you said "Easter eggs." I guess Easter is now canon in Star Wars!
I actually am in the process of learning Aurebesh. I already take my physics notes in school through Aurebesh XD
i learned it and i do the exact same thing
@@blakerowan Yeah after the Old Republic took over maybe. Remember life progressed first from planets, so whichever species progressed the fastest and was the first in space was most likely the one that picked the universal language. Although realistically, Math is the universal language!
@@TenToAceStudios Praise my guy
We just use Roman numerals on the equation sheet to remember constants
@@blakerowan lol
IIRC the Latin alphabet is called High Galactic in canon or Legends. The Greek alphabet also exists (though I don't think it has a canon name), and in a partial example Sith letters share the name of Hebrew letters (aleph, beth, etc.)
Greek is called Tionese in Legends.
The Arabic letters in tatooine are there because the filming sight is in the Middle East. Luke’s home is a real place they just filmed at. That being said, I don’t know Arabic sorry
No that's not in the Middle East. It's in North Africa (Tunisia to be exact) please don't confuse us with the Middle East again but it's okay lol
Also the Star Wars universe ALSO has greek letters. For example the Lambda Shuttle, which has the shape of a greek Lambda.
the english characters seen in star wars is canonically part of the alphabet 'high galactic' which is the original 'upper class' way of writing the galactic basic language. galactic basic is just english, and so is high galactic, it had just become most common to write and read in aurebesh long before the star wars saga takes place.
In Legends (not sure about canon), it was explained that Galactic Basic (what we hear as English in the films) actually has two alphabets: Aurebesh, which is more common, and used for more commercial and general purposes (menus, literary works, most computers, etc.), and what's known as the High Galactic Alphabet, which is our English Alphabet, which is considered more fancy and upper-class, and is used in the marketing of more expensive things like droids, ships, etc., as well as for most signatures, legal documents, etc.
It's very possible for a language to have multiple alphabets, such as in the infamous case of Japanese, which has three alphabets (well, not alphabets, but you get what I mean), not including Romajii, which is only used for the convenience of tourists.
I mean, they literally say TK-421. Tee Kay. That's English.
Also CT for Clones and FN for Finn
R2-D2.
C-3PO.
etc.
Good point. :)
Apparently the english/latin alphabet is called high galactic in Star Wars and is mostly used by upper class people. Which could explain some things having it
This just seems like various over sights that were never meant to be seen and can hardly be seen, as proven by how more obvious examples were edited out during the special editions, and how your examples don’t seem to extend past the OT. I think things like the X-Wing is just for the audiences sake, most people would probably say “what the hell’s a Xesh-Wing”, and it makes sense seeing as how it looks like an X. To them it’s the T-65, we don’t call the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber a W-wing even though it does somewhat have the shape of a W, but the X-wing is just called that for easier recognition and whatnot. Same reason they also speak English, for the audience’s sake.
It is bit hard to tell what the Arabic writing exactly says (due to the quality of the shot) but I think it says يا قاسم which is read as "Ya Kasem" and translates to something around the lines of "Listen up Kasem" with Kasem being a common Arabic name.
I am pretty incompetent at Arabic but I can’t really tell what it says and I can only make out a few letters. It could also be Urdu or Persian
It's quite likely written by Tunisian locals as most of the Tatooine stuff was filmed there.
No it's definitely Arabic since it was filmed at my home country Tunisia. It's written on old Berber caves
Excellent video! Very entertaining, fascinating and fun! 👍🏻👍🏻
What a great, informative, and interesting video; I really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
The English (Latin) Alphabet seems to function in Star Wars very much like how we sometimes used the Greek Alphabet in English.
English is known as basic in the Star Wars universe, and the English letters are called High Galactic. This is canon btw
I was just about to mention that, but you beat me to it.
My guess is how production was at the time; I mean, do you think, during filming ANH, they had the time & money to just invent a new alphabet from scratch? Plus they pretty much had to get whatever they could find due to the budget.
I always love your positivity and wonder
Your videos consistently blow my mind.
This is exactly the sort of thing that can spawn some very interesting debates about what actually is considered canon in a film.
Also something worth noting is the use of the term "human" in star wars and what exactly that means in the context of human-equivalent aliens as well as Homo-sapiens that originate from different planets, or how the AT-ST is sometimes referred to as a "chicken walker" despite no evidence of chickens existing in this galaxy...
There's definitely discussion to be had about what's incidental vs. what is intentional...
The nerdiness of this video is pleasing
Finaly he maid a video i was waiting this
I've looked it up because some where stating it, and yeah, the latin alphabet is known as high galactic in lore
My interpretation was that english letters were just shapes to them, much like a cross or a chevron
The latin alphabet exists in star wars canon and is known as high galactic. It's only really used in engineering and maths in the same way we would use the greek alphabet (delta wing is a real world plane design named because the wing is shaped like the greek letter delta Δ) or to seem fancy, as seen on the Naboo wine Domaine de la Maison sur le Lac shown in the clone wars. Domaine de la Maison sur le Lac is also interesting because it shows that French is also a thing in star wars.
And don't forget the English letters stamped onto the bottom of the Graflex flash, visible in the Wampa cave scene when Luke pulls his saber out of the snow.
I knew I’d miss a few examples! Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll have to take a look!
Honestly I think English letters could be used in SW as we use the Greek alphabet today, as mathematical symbols and variables. So it would be like us calling an aircraft the “alpha-wing”, which actually seems pretty normal. And the use of it on computers could imply that these ancient symbols are used instead in technology purposes, like replacing the text for on/off.
I mean “delta-wings” are actually a thing, and so named because they resemble a triangle which is also the Greek symbol for the letter
Even if every instance of English characters were replaced with Aurabesh the explanation doesn't need to rely on actual alphabetic characters at all. In fact it makes the explanation easier. Transliteration. "X" and "Y" are also shapes. It makes complete sense that any mature, mathematically literate language would have names for those shapes that transliterate to our sounds "X" and "Y". Even our letter "A" is thought to have begun in cuneiform as the representation of a bulls head. Which, honestly, wouldn't be a bad name for that fighter given its shape.
The same way we have the shape called a "cross"; it *resembles* a letter t, but exists on its own as a shape. They could just have an established shape called an "Ex" that looks remarkably like our own letter X.
You just answerer a question I didn´t know I had. That´s what I call a good service :D
Your videos are ridiculously high quality dude. is there any chance we will see a video on how you model your ships in the future?
All this groundbreaking information you presented of English alphabet in the original Star Wars movie leads me to the controversially conclude that Star Wars may actually be a fictional movie series made in our English speaking universe in the late 20th century
I never saw the text on that panel with the droids. Nice Easter egg of thx1138
It is good to know that even in star wars vehicles still use casette tapes
Heh. Regarding the Death Star superlaser control: when I was in the tech booth at KSU, working on a campus-cable music video show, I took one look at the Grass Valley mixing board, saw the T-shaped levers, and it was all I could do not to say "Commence primary ignition" every time I reached for a button on that thing.
My headcanon is that "English" text in their time/galaxy is the modern Earth equivalent to Greek and Latin -- dead languages used to for technical and scientific text. e.g. "Gamma Rays" or "Beta Test"
Is there some way to adjust your mic or use a cover, the "S" sounds in most of your videos are emphasised and distorted, regardless of what device I use or my own sound settings.
Otherwise love your content, this is just one thing that would make your videos even better.
Yessss thissss pleasssse turn down the gain or back off the Mic please :)
Audio engineer here with an extensive background in dialogue: the VO sounds fine.
@@JordonBeal .... but apparently with a limited range of hearing.
We're not making this up...
This is something that can be easily fixed vla behaviour or settings so that the videos are listenable
Written English is "High Galactic". There are so many instances of Latin letters being used in SW they had to come up with a canon explanataion. Fighters named X, Y, A, B, U and V. The "Tantive IV". Serial number designations for droids and troopers, CT-5555, TK-421, C-3P0, R2D2, the list goes on.
The best way to rationalise it I've found (as an English speaker) is that Galactic Basic is the Star Wars equivalent of English for us, Aurabesh is their equivalent of our Latin Alphabet, used to write English. High Galactic as a concept is sort of like a combination of how we use letters of the Greek alphabet and words of the Latin alphabet. So naming things with High Galactic letters is a bit like designating things with Alpha ,Beta, Omega etc. Like the A-Wing is an "Alpha Wing", and the B-Wing like a "Beta-Wing". Basically High Galactic is a fancy way of writing and a distincive way of identifying things typically in a Military or Scientific context.
In star wars the clone wars cad bane (no idea if I spelt that right) was listing off coordinates and the letter R was in there so maybe it is more for coordinates and maps and ect
Yoooo it was my comment that u said in the start!!!!!! I also wrote something about that they are talking in english and not is star wars language
Hey, how did you made that awesome intro?
Hey EC Henry In Solo there is a AT ST with its main cabin replaced with what looks like an 88mm flack cannon. It appears briefly in the background on mimban around when they steal that AT hauler. Any idea what this is?
1:55 - Below THX/1138, there is a whole load of machine code instructions: e.g. Jmp=jump; Bne=Branch if not equal; Lda=Load into A register. That's assembler 101 right there.
In-universe, English alphabet in Star Wars is called the High Galactic Alphabet, utilized by people (specifically companies and organizations) to display a level of sophistication or class. I'd think of it like cursive writing or some kind of formal documentation.
Mongolian now exists in Star Wars too
The thx was paired with 113 as a reference to that movie and I did not know it was there
Maybe the english alphabet is like a more technical alphabet, especially for imperial engineers who don't want just everyone reading their plans.
From what I've read online, the english alphabet is called high galactic and is usually only used by the upper class. So maybe you are right that the engineers use it because they think no one can read it
I seem to remember that there's even a wookieepedia entry on english script to go along with all of the on-screen appearances.
i'd love for you to try your hand at vehicle designs varying from science fiction, perhaps some superhero stuff? modernise some of the batmobiles, perhaps do some designs for background vehicles we've seen in films too, love the content by the way. It's very unique, I think what you have here is something special
"THX/1138" as a nod to THX-1138, Lucas' first film.
I’m curious to see what the Naboo defense force might use as a capital ship and I think that would make a pretty cool video of ur interested
I have asked that question MANY times over the years!
Could be that aurobesh is used for written and spoken language.
And the latin alphabet is used for engineering or technical language, (X-wing, R2D2, ect.)
Similar to how in the real world we use universal symbols to bridge language barriers in technical fields.
It's just Old High Galactic. It's a commonly used secondary 'fancy' writing system. This was established a long time ago.
In the original Episode IV when Obi Wan deactivated the track beam, the computer screen read: "power On-Off"
It's because The Doctor visited that gallery in the past.
It's also how guy whose arm Obi-Wan cuts off in the Cantina has DALEK gun.
Yeah this is one of those neat little things that was retconned in the later EU. If I remember correctly, in Star Wars the language known as ancient Atrisian is basically their equivalent of Latin, and that’s where this text comes from. Then you have ancient Tionese, which is essentially Greek, where you get terms like Lambda and Theta from for different ship classifications. And obviously Aurebesh among many others.
In Rogue one when the rebels are downloading the plans onto the tantive 4 the numbers onscreen is in arabic numerals too.
Luke must be blasting Van Halen in that tape deck LOL hahahah
In Legends, the Latin alphabet is called High Galactic Alphabet and is an ancient alphabet rarely used. It's considered posh and is sometimes used by politicians and other influential people to be seen as educated. The Greek alphabet also exists in Star Wars (hence Lambda Shuttle) and is called Tionese. It's also an ancient alphabet which was used in Xim's Empire before the Republic was founded. Considering this, it's not weird that X-wings are called X-wings and Lambda Shuttles Lambda Shuttles. It probably sounds fancy to the people who live in the Star Wars galaxy, just like Greek sounds fancy to us.
Why does english alphabet exist in Star Wars?
Lucas: We made a fucky wucky...
The English alphabet in Star Wars is known as High Galactic in-universe. It is shown both in the Disney Canon and EU Legends continuities.
I think they use names like X wing like we use the greek alphabet.
as for the death star controls. That is do to found props.
The location was a power plant and the closeup is a video switcher.
The Latin Alphabet is called High Galactic in Star Wars and is rarer than Aurebesh but still somewhat prevalent, especially among upper class core-worlders. Also the Greek Alphabet exists in-universe under the name Tionese Alphabet.
These are fine examples of bizarre examples.
Also there's Docking bay 94 and the # for Princess Lea's detention cell and the # for the exit door to the garbage smasher.
You should make your ships in space engineers
note to self: if I get transported into the Star Wars universe, I should bring my cassettes!
My view: Aurebesh is the Galactic Standard due to it's use by the Republic and Core Worlds, but is probably just a cipher based on an older Galactic language like 'High Galactic'. The roman alphabet is more commonly seen in the Outer Rim and used by groups that operate there, but even there it is being replaced with Aurebesh.
Rocks in the background of an outdoor scene had random graffiti on them ... captured on film and thus part of the "on screen" canon of the Star Wars universe, lol.
Also Polish is a real language in SW. C3PO speaks polish in ROTJ.
And in OG Clone Wars there is race that speaks russian. Probably because of creator of the series Genndy Tartakovsky.
Easy, the “English” alphabet (although, called something different) does exist in Star Wars, it just isn’t the alphabet used for Galactic Basic and isn’t a commonly used alphabet. X-Wings are known as X-Wings for the same reason A New Hope is Episode IV, not Episode 4.
Hey a couple of months ago Colin Trevorrow revealed a TIE fighter he was originally planning to have in his version of Episode 9. It had three cockpits and was called the TIE Marauder. Why don't you make a video about that?
Man now you have to make a Xesh wing design
high galactic is the name of the English alphabet in star wars
One explanation: we are seeing Star Wars translated into our culture's language, from an unknown one (like "Low Gothic" in Warhammer 40,000). Another: Star Wars represents the far future, perhaps 100,000 years from now, so small legacies of long-forgotten ethnic groups exist. This might also explain why Bahasa Indonesia and Tibetan can be heard in Star Wars, if memory serves, and why there are so many near-human genetic offshoots. I personally prefer Star Wars not to be our future, but rather it's own universe where humans evolved on a different planet millions of years into a long forgotten past. Earth languages are just representations of the galaxy's languages.
Star Wars happened "a long time ago" in "a galaxy far, far away" 😅
Dave Filoni has stated that Embo from The clone wars straight up speaks French.
It's also in the Mandalorian on Boba Fett's Armor. HG.28C (Hunters Guild License 28C)
In legends and canon, the Latin alphabet is called 'High Galactic'
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/High_Galactic
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/High_Galactic_alphabet
In-universe, the English alphabet is actually called "High Galactic", and it's actually in some Clone Wars episodes, a Rebels episode, some comics, and a canon picture book. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/High_Galactic
as i understand English language is called high galactic and mostly only used by the nobility of the galactic republic
I want to say that just before Disney assimilated Star Wars, or perhaps I just read it on Wookiepidia, English is/was a part of the Star wars universe. I believe it was called something like "Old High Galactic Standard" or whatever. Keep in mind that in many Old EU sources there's also "Latin" -based names, so it's all good.
Vader is a giant version of Napoleon.
Aslo all stormtrooper identification numbers begin with TK (or FN if you are first order)