Lucas also insisted that written text throughout the films look as dissimilar from the English alphabet as possible, and constructed alphabets were developed.Ĭritics contend the languages constructed for the films compared unfavorably with the true constructed languages found in some other fictional works. This methodology was also used in The Force Awakens by Sara Forsberg. He created alien dialogue out of the sounds of primarily non-English languages, such as Quechua, Haya, and Tibetan. The fictional languages were approached as sound design and developed largely by Ben Burtt, sound designer for both the original and prequel trilogy of films. None of these names appear in the Star Wars films themselves.

The lingua franca of the franchise is known in-universe as 'Galactic Basic', used to refer to the language of the film or work itself, be it English or a language that the work was dubbed or translated into.Ĭharacters often speak languages other than Basic, notably Shyriiwook spoken by Chewbacca and other Wookiees, droidspeak spoken by R2-D2 and BB-8, Ewokese spoken by Ewoks, and Huttese spoken by Jabba the Hutt. The Star Wars space opera universe, created by George Lucas, features some dialogue spoken in fictional languages. The Aurebesh alphabet is the primary constructed script seen throughout the franchise.

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