Secondary alternate alphabet



While Basic utilized Aurebesh and in rare occasions, even an obscure Alternate Basic alphabet, there is evidence that another alphabet was also in use in the Galaxy.

The origins of that script were obscure and evidence is scarce. There are no full texts written with it, but it seems that it was somehow related to the alternate Basic alphabet in some forms.

While its exact popularity is not known, for a reason, names of its letters were used widely by the Galactic Empire. Most of its squadrons were named after those letters.

Apart from the squadrons, Kappa-class shuttle and Lambda-class shuttle are named after letters of that alphabet. Interistingly, like the so-called -wing starships were named after the shapes of the letters of the alternate alphabet, similarly, Lambda-class shuttle's shape resembles the letter λ.

A spaceship that was named itself after such a letter was shuttle Epsilon Four.

Behind the scenes
This article describes the instances of the Greek alphabet in the Star Wars canon. Greek letter names are frequently used both in real life and in science fiction to baptize ships, technology, constellations etc.

Like in the case of the Latin alphabet however, despite mentioned numerous times in the saga, its canonicity and consideration in the canon is not known.