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:''This later "vulgate" was presumably the Doctor's native language.''
:''This later "vulgate" was presumably the Doctor's native language.''


[[Image:Written_gallifreyan1.jpg|thumb|An example of Gallifreyan script written by [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')]]
[[Image:Written_gallifreyan1.jpg|thumb|An example of Gallifreyan script written by [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')]]
===List of examples===
===List of examples===
*Two [[Time Lord]]s looked at a visual archival of information on [[Third Doctor|the Doctor]] which displayed both a photo and writing. ([[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'')  
*Two [[Time Lord]]s looked at a visual archival of information on [[Third Doctor|the Doctor]] which displayed both a photo and writing. ([[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'')  
*A vaguely Arabic-looking script, in a letter written by [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] to warn the [[High Council]] of an assassination. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')
*A vaguely Arabic-looking script, in a letter written by [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] to warn the [[High Council]] of an assassination. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')  
 
 
[[Image:Written_gallifreyan2.jpg|thumb|An example of the second type of writing: interlocking/overlapping circles.  (Note [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s handwritten note in the upper right corner.) ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
[[Image:Written_gallifreyan2.jpg|thumb|An example of the second type of writing: interlocking/overlapping circles.  (Note [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s handwritten note in the upper right corner.) ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
*[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] left a note for the [[Supreme Dalek]] in a script other than English. This included the Doctor's "name" [[Theta Sigma]] in Greek. ([[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
*[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] left a note for the [[Supreme Dalek]] in a script other than English. This included the Doctor's "name" [[Theta Sigma]] in Greek. ([[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
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*A complex system of interlocking circles was used by [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] output screens in "[[coral desktop theme]]" mode and was the one seen in the notes that the Doctor scattered around the [[console room]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' onwards)
*A complex system of interlocking circles was used by [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] output screens in "[[coral desktop theme]]" mode and was the one seen in the notes that the Doctor scattered around the [[console room]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' onwards)
:''Previous to this, we had seen the TARDIS' displays, when they appeared, in English.''
:''Previous to this, we had seen the TARDIS' displays, when they appeared, in English.''
 
*The Visionary wrote interlocking circles, which [[Rassilon]] and the other Time lords could understand. one of the words was Earth ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
*The Visionary wrote interlocking circles, which [[Rassilon]] and the other time lords could understand. one of the words was Earth ([[DW]]:The End Of Time)
 
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[[File:Gallifreyan.jpg|thumb|Gallifreyan writing around [[Torchwood 3]]]]


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 10:39, 4 January 2010

Various forms of written Gallifreyan have appeared. By the time of the Doctor, the archaic Old High Gallifreyan language spoken in the days of Rassilon had given way to a more contemporary form of the language. (DW: The Five Doctors)

This later "vulgate" was presumably the Doctor's native language.
File:Written gallifreyan1.jpg
An example of Gallifreyan script written by the Doctor. (DW: The Deadly Assassin)

List of examples

An example of the second type of writing: interlocking/overlapping circles. (Note the Doctor's handwritten note in the upper right corner.) (DW: Utopia)
This implies that the Renegade Daleks would know how to interpret Gallifreyan writing.
Previous to this, we had seen the TARDIS' displays, when they appeared, in English.
  • The Visionary wrote interlocking circles, which Rassilon and the other Time lords could understand. one of the words was Earth (DW: The End of Time)

External links