The Huttese language had its own accompanying writing system of the same name.[2] However, this does not appear in the actual episode.[3] On the Hutt-controlled planet of Tatooine, podracers bore Huttese writing both on their hulls and on their display screens.[4] Such inscriptions could also be seen on the walls of Coruscant at the time of the Cold War.[5] An advertisement for Hutt's Grotto at Stobar Spaceport was written in this alphabet.[6]
Behind the scenes[]
A Huttese alphabet was created for the 1999 movie Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, in which it was featured during the podracing sequence. Huttese inscriptions were notably shown on the podracers' control panels. The numerals for "3", "2" and "1" were also featured on the lap indicators at the Mos Espa Grand Arena.[4] The same numerals appeared in the 1999 video game Star Wars: Episode I Racer.[7]
The same glyphs were used in the Nar Kreeta level of the 2003 video game Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, although occurrences of that alphabet were written in mirror image when compared to The Phantom Menace.[8] Those inscriptions were written according to the mapping of a fanmade "Nal-Huttese" font that could be found at Geocities.com as early as July, 1999.[9] The readable Huttese inscriptions in the game are "BALE," "RANCOR," "OPEN," "CLOSED," and "PARLOR," all of which made sense in context.[8]
While the original Nal-Huttese font only contained letters A-S, an updated version emerged later on EagleFonts.com, a searchable database of free TrueType fonts.[10] That new version was included in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Inscriptions on planet Coruscant are consistent with spelling the phrases "Black Sun" and "The sun shall rise." On the Vaiken Spacedock, a board hanging above the doorway leading to the Hutta departures clearly reads "Hutta."[5]
A different font was created for the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.[11] Despite the aforementioned evidences to the contrary, Leland Chee, who maintains the Holocron continuity database, has stated that the updated Geocities font has not been officially endorsed. When asked about that by a Wookieepedia editor on his Facebook account, Chee stated: "Though [the updated Geocities font] has many similarities to a font we have based on letters and numbers seen in The Phantom Menace, this is not an official font. No official fonts have ever been made publicly available."[12]
In concept art for the Hutt swamp speeder created for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Hunt for Ziro," there was a warning in Huttese around the engines, reading "DANGER STATIC ELECTRICITY".[2]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars: Episode I Racer (Number system only)
- Racer Rush on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Brothers"
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary
- Episode I Snapshot: Podracer Cockpit Display on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary
- "Hunt for Ziro" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Ultimate Alien Anthology
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Hunt for Ziro" Concept Art Gallery on StarWars.com (backup link) (Slide 3)
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Hunt for Ziro"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: The Old Republic
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Brothers"
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode I Racer
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- ↑ Star Wars Nal-Huttese font (HTML) on www.geocities.com (October 4, 2009) (archived from the original on October 4, 2009)
- ↑ Nal-Huttese on Eagle Fonts (archived from the original on May 7, 2020)
- ↑ "Friends and Enemies" - The Clone Wars Episode Guide on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link) (slide 8)
- ↑ Leland Chee on Facebook: Re: Huttese font (May 10, 2013): "No official fonts have ever been made publicly available." (content obsolete and backup link not available)
External links[]
- The Complete Wermo's Guide to Huttese
- Tommy of Escondido's Alien Fonts - Nal Huttese by Mike H. Lee (original link)
- Tommy of Escondido's Alien Fonts - Nal Huttese by Mike H. Lee (updated link) The original Mike H. Lee fan-made font may (or may not) have been retroactively made canon by its inclusion in Star Wars: The Old Republic.