Thread by @AurekFonts

@OnAirDeraan It's an interesting question. I think mostly, folks are just keen to quote Ralph McQuarrie (and why not? He defined a good chunk of the Star Wars visual landscape).

But Yavin is sometimes considered an ancient Sith temple... or a Sith offshoot temple, whereas Lothal is a Jedi 1/

@OnAirDeraan temple. Meanwhile, the Zeffo temples seen in Jedi: Fallen Order all use the same or similar script, alongside their more Zeffo-specific square runes. 2/

@OnAirDeraan And on Batuu, you can buy a Jedi journal, which includes a table of runes which perfectly match the ones in the Zeffo temples. 3/

@OnAirDeraan BUT, the Visual Dictionary for TRoS, says that the language is ur-Kittât, the "ancient runic language of the Sith." It perfectly matches the Jedi journal, and also various Sith artifacts in Dok Ondar's possession. 4/

@OnAirDeraan BUT these letters do not match those translated from the "Sith" on Ochi's dagger by C-3PO.

@OnAirDeraan While in the TRoS:VD described the runes as ur-Kittât, and the language as The Old Tongue, DK's the Star Wars Book says that it "stems from the Old Tongue."

@OnAirDeraan I think this is on the right track, although, since it is Star Wars, a lot of it translates back to English...

https://twitter.com/OnAirDeraan/status/1334656563760537600

@OnAirDeraan That's the sense I get.

https://twitter.com/OnAirDeraan/status/1334657751264399362

@OnAirDeraan Another couple of instances. From the Sith Temple of Malachor (behind the scenes). It is referred to as "The Old Tongue" in the episode.

@OnAirDeraan The Jedi Temple Challenge features them in the Glyph Triangles room of the final trial.

@OnAirDeraan And as to your idea that this was a precursor to Aurebesh, here's a chart I drew up of one possible way that several galactic alphabets may have been derived from the Old Tongue:

https://twitter.com/AurekFonts/status/1305278392040738816

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