- "[S]uch very different ways of writing as the Aurebesh, the ancient Durese syllabary, the Pre-Corellian alphabet, and the abjad of the Azure Imperium all use symbols from Rakatan sources, rarely in the same ways."
- ―Doctor Milanda Vorgan, "The Written Word: A Brief Introduction to the Writing Systems of Galactic Basic"
The abjad of the Azure Imperium was a writing system used in the Azure Imperium,[1] an interstellar civilization centered on the planet Axum and established before the formation of the Galactic Republic.[2] The abjad used characters that were derived from the logographic writing system of[1] Rakata, the language spoken by the Rakata species of the Infinite Empire,[3] which had at one point enslaved the inhabitants of the Azure Imperium. The latter faction's script shared this re-use of Rakata symbols with various other, very different writing systems—such as the ancient Durese syllabary and the Pre-Corellian and Aurebesh alphabets—which frequently adopted the glyphs with no apparent connection to the original logographic nature of the Rakatan script. The abjad of the Azure Imperium's Rakatan origins were eventually noted by the xenolinguist Doctor Milanda Vorgan in[1] her[4] 38 ABY publication "The Written Word: A Brief Introduction to the Writing Systems of Galactic Basic."[1]
Behind the scenes
The abjad of the Azure Imperium was introduced in the article "The Written Word," which was authored by John Hazlett and published on StarWars.com Hyperspace on March 5, 2010.[1] In the real world, the term "abjad" denotes a writing system in which characters represent primarily consonants and few or no vowels.[5]
Sources
The Written Word on Hyperspace (article) (content obsolete and backup link not available) (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11
The Written Word on Hyperspace (article) (content obsolete and backup link not available)
- ↑ Coruscant and the Core Worlds
- ↑ The Unknown Regions
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"Erasing All Traces" — The Last Command Sourcebook (reprinted in The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook)
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ABJAD Definition & Usage Examples on Dictionary.com: "a system of writing, as in Hebrew and Arabic scripts, in which each symbol represents a consonantal sound, with few or no vowels being represented in the basic characters." (backup link archived on January 3, 2024)
