Star Wars Language Tools
A free, fan-made toolkit for translating English into the writing systems of the Star Wars galaxy — built for accuracy, not just aesthetics.
Aurebesh is the standard writing system of the Galactic Republic and Empire in Star Wars. It shows up on ship displays, signage, helmets, and props throughout all nine Skywalker Saga films, The Mandalorian, Andor, and dozens of other productions.
The name comes from its first two letters: Aurek (A) and Besh (B) — the same way "alphabet" comes from Greek Alpha and Beta. Each of the 26 letters maps directly to an English letter, plus 12 two-letter combinations called dipthongs that map to a single glyph.
Most Aurebesh translators online get dipthongs wrong. A dipthong is a two-letter combo — like CH, SH, TH, OO, EE — that maps to a single Aurebesh glyph, not two separate ones. If a translator ignores dipthongs, words like the, cheese, shield, and night all come out wrong.
This translator handles all 12 canonical dipthongs correctly: CH, EE, EO, KH, NG, OO, SH, TH, YA, BL, KR, ZH. Dipthongs are matched before single letters, which is the only way to get accurate output — especially important for tattoos and screen-accurate props.
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