Writing

&nbsp Hindu-Arabic numerals appear throughout the films, mainly on computer displays counting down time or distance. At least one instance of the Latin alphabet crops up in the original version of  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope  ("POWER - TRACTOR BEAM 12 (SEC. N6)"). Text in the other films is either illegible, offscreen, or in fictional scripts. For the 2004 DVD release, this writing was changed to the Aurebesh alphabet. In the novel  The Truce at Bakura , the Ssi-ruuk speak some sort of tonal language which involves whistles. A human prisoner devises an orthography for this language.