How the Written Word Evolved in 'Star Wars'

In the beginning there was the word, and that word was Basic. But just how you approach writing the primary language of the galaxy far, far away, has been a fascinating topic of exploration in Star Wars from its start . The need to flesh out Star Wars into a wider universe after the original film exploded into popularity created a worldbuilding problem that would take decades to “solve”—and in doing so created a rich variety of writing systems to populate its galaxy.

Basic: The Language of Star Wars

Before you even get to how to even write it, you have to know what Basic (also known as Galactic Basic, or Galactic Basic Standard) represents in Star Wars . Although we as an English-speaking audience hear it as English—and of course Star Wars is a fictional universe cre