Mandalorian (writing system)

Mandalorian was the written form of Mando'a, the spoken language of the Mandalorian people. 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".
===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".
Later, Mandalorian writing scrawled on the wall of Maul's sanctuary in the Nightsister lair on Dathomir read "KENOBI," the object of Maul's obsession.
===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 "FOUNDLING," YEAR , "CONCORD DAWN," " JASTE," "FATHER FETT," "Chapter 14: The Tragedy" depicts text in the script, for which a transliteration can be made using information provided by Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia. 
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:
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"Chapter 17: The Apostate" depicts text in the script, for which a transliteration can be made using information provided by Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia.
A video monitor accessed by R5-D4 in Din Djarin's N-1 starfighter read:
COMMS 	FET:P"Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore" depicts text in the script, for which a transliteration can be made using information provided by Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia.
NAV:DATA	FET: S
DJQ:SYS 	FET:Q
W:SYS 	E:GJAR
G:SYS 	T:DROP
The same text appeared on a monitor on the console of Bo-Katan Kryze's Gauntlet starfighter.
A commemorative plaque down by the mystical waters in the Mines of Mandalore read
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 THEGREAT 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.
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."
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. One box read "FOU: G", while the other said "FOU: J"."Chapter 20: The Foundling" depicts text in the script, for which a transliteration can be made using information provided by Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia. A similar box lying in a cave when Djarin addressed the rest of The Tribe said "TRO:G"."Chapter 21: The Pirate" depicts text in the script, for which a transliteration can be made using information provided by Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia.
When Kryze was flying over Plazir-15, the text "LAND: VECTOR" and "NAV""Chapter 22: Guns for Hire" depicts text in the script, for which a transliteration can be made using information provided by Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia. 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. When Kryze was flying over Nevarro, three words written in Mandalorian appeared on the first two monitors, with the third word being "NAV,""Chapter 23: The Spies" depicts text in the script, for which a transliteration can be made using information provided by Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia. like when she flew over Plazir-15.
Two Mandalorian flags were sitting in the camp of a group of Mandalorian privateers on Plazir-15.
Once the covert assembled at their destination on Nevarro, one of the boxes they had brought along was labeled "1024".
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".
==Behind the scenes==
The Mandalorian inscription segment that Din Djarin shows The Armorer in The Mandalorian episode "Chapter 17: The Apostate" is taken from the Book of Exodus verse 10:5-6 in the King James Version of the Bible. Verse 10:5-6 is about the plague of locusts, one of the ten Plagues of Egypt; paralleling the Purge of Mandalore. The full verse goes (the text that appears on-screen 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==
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*Sabine My Rebel Sketchbook
*Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
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==Notes and references==
Category:Alphabets
Category:Mandalorian culture