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- "Is this inscription not Mandalorian?"
- ―Din Djarin, to The Armorer
Mandalorian was the written form[6] of Mando'a, the spoken language of the Mandalorian people.[5] It was also used to read and write Galactic Basic.
History[]
Republic Era[]
At the time of the Clone Wars, the Mandalorian secret service wore a crest on their shoulder that read "IN DEFENSE OF MANDALORE".[6]
Imperial Era[]
During the Galactic Civil War, when the Mandalorian Protector Fenn Rau flew off in his Fang fighter while under attack on the third moon of Concord Dawn, his cockpit monitor said "TARGET LOCKED" in Mandalorian script. However, when Kanan Jarrus broke into his fighter, the monitor switched to "WARNING".[8][8]
Later, Mandalorian writing scrawled on the wall of Maul's sanctuary in the Nightsister lair on Dathomir read "KENOBI,"[13] the object of Maul's obsession.[7]
New Republic Era[]
A few years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a holographic readout of Boba Fett's chain code was written in Mandalorian, vertically from top to bottom. It contained the excerpts[1] "FOUNDLING," "TOOK INTO", "THE YEAR THE", "CONCORD DAWN," "MENTOR JASTE," "FATHER FETT," "BOBA FETT."[14]
Later, the Mandalorian Din Djarin showed The Armorer a segment of a Mandalorian inscription on a green trinitite fragment which he obtained from Jawas, who acquired it from someone who visited Mandalore, which had been destroyed during the Great Purge. The inscription, which was mirror-inverted, read:[12]
BE
T THE RESID
ICH REMAINETH U
SHALL EAT EVERY
YOU OUT OF THE F
LL THY HOUS
NTS, AND THE HOUSES
HER THY FATHERS
NCE THE DA[15]
A video monitor accessed by R5-D4 in Din Djarin's N-1 starfighter read:[2]
| COMMS | FET:P[16] |
| NAV:DATA | FET: S[16] |
| DJQ:SYS | FET:Q[16] |
| W:SYS | E:GJAR[16] |
| G:SYS | T:DROP[16] |
The same text appeared on a monitor on the console of Bo-Katan Kryze's Gauntlet starfighter.[4]
A commemorative plaque down by the mystical waters in the Mines of Mandalore read[2]
LIVING WATERS
THESE MINES DATE BACK TO THE AGE OF THE FIRST
MANDALORE. ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT FOLKLORE THE
MINES WERE ONCE A MYTHOSAUR LAIR. MANDALORE THE
GREAT DEFEATED AND THEN RODE THE MYTHICAL BEAST. IT
IS FROM THESE LEGENDS THAT THE SKULL SIGNET WAS
ADOPTED AND BECAME THE SYMBOL OF OUR PLANET.[16]
"Control override"
Interestingly, when Bo-Katan Kryze read the plaque to Djarin, she misread "Mandalore the Great defeated and rode the mythical beast" as "Mandalore the Great is said to have tamed the mythical beast."[2]
As two young members of The Tribe were training in combat at the covert's beach, two boxes were lying in the sand next to them, bearing Mandalorian labels.[9] One box read "FOU: G", while the other said "FOU: J".[17] A similar box lying in a cave when Djarin addressed the rest of The Tribe said[18] "TRO:G".[19]
When Kryze was flying over Plazir-15, the text[20] "LAND: VECTOR" and "NAV"[21] appeared on two monitors on the console of her Gauntlet starfighter. When the planet's automated guidance took control of the ship, "CONTROL OVERRIDE" was flashing on a different monitor.[20] When Kryze was flying over Nevarro, three words written in Mandalorian appeared on the first two monitors, with the third word being[22] "NAV,"[23] like when she flew over Plazir-15.[20]
Two Mandalorian flags were sitting in the camp of a group of Mandalorian privateers on Plazir-15.[20]
Once the covert assembled at their destination on Nevarro, one of the boxes they had brought along was labeled[22] "1024".[23]
Shortly before the outbreak of the First Order-Resistance War, the logo of a business specializing in snow cones was written in Mandalorian, reading "SNOKE CONES".[24]
Behind the scenes[]
A composite image of the shard from Mandalore in The Mandalorian episode "Chapter 17: The Apostate"; original image on the left, rotated and mirror-inverted image on the right
The Mandalorian inscription segment that Din Djarin shows The Armorer in The Mandalorian episode "Chapter 17: The Apostate"[12] is taken from the Book of Exodus verse 10:5-6 in the King James Version of the Bible.[25] Verse 10:5-6 is about the plague of locusts, one of the ten Plagues of Egypt;[26] paralleling the Purge of Mandalore.[12] The full verse goes[26] (the text that appears on-screen[12] is set in bold):
And they shall cover the face of the earth,
that one cannot be able to see the earth:
and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped,
which remaineth unto you from the hail,
and shall eat every tree which groweth
for you out of the field:
And they shall fill thy houses,
and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses
of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers,
nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day
that they were upon the earth unto this day.
And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
Appearances[]
Sources[]
The Clone Wars Episode Guide: The Academy on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)- "The Academy" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link) (First identified as Mandalorian)
- Sabine My Rebel Sketchbook
- Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- "Visions and Voices" Episode Guide | Star Wars Rebels on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Designing Star Wars: Star Wars Resistance on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian — "Making of the Season 2 Finale" (Appears in hologram)
Notes and references[]
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