The release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been met with much praise when it premiered in the US this week and will hit theaters on 18th December. The action takes place 30 years after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and there are no Ewoks!

The staff of Matinee, a renowned multilingual voice-over agency in the United Kingdom, decided to look at the different languages which is spoken in Star Wars throughout the galaxy. Needless to say, there was quite a lot of research involved. Now you can check out the research in full as they go into ten Star Wars languages and the history behind them.

From Galactic Basic Standard through to Binary (Droidspeak), Sith Language and more, it’s surprising that so many beings can communicate with each other.