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| [[file:Ohg.jpg|thumb|The phrase "Hello, Sweetie" in Old High Gallifreyan. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')]]
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| '''High Gallifreyan''' was the ancient language of the [[Time Lord]]s. It was not known by many; by the Doctor's era, it was virtually extinct, superseded by [[Gallifreyan (language)|Gallifreyan]].
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| The Doctor claimed High Gallifreyan once possessed immense power when correctly harnessed, such as raising Empires or destroying gods. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'') The truth of this statement is unknown.
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| The written form of High Gallifreyan resembles, to human eyes, a mixture of Greek letters and mathematical symbols.
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| Inside the [[Tomb of Rassilon]] in the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]], an old rhyme was written in "Old High Gallifreyan" which explained the outcome of the "Game of Rassilon". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'')
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| Within the Doctor's rooms on Gallifrey there was a painting of a woman, holding a scroll with the words "Death is but a door" written in High Gallifreyan. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'')
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| The [[First Doctor]] wrote his [[Five Hundred Year Diary]] in High Gallifreyan to make sure no one could read it. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'')
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| [[River Song]] could write in Old High Gallifreyan, which she used to get the Doctor's attention. Who taught it to her so far remains unknown. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')
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| :''In ''The Time of Angels'', Amy asks what writing in Old High Gallifreyan means, implying that the TARDIS does not translate it.
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| [[Category:Languages]]
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| [[Category:Gallifreyan history]]
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| [[Category:Gallifreyan culture]]
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Latest revision as of 19:37, 11 June 2011
