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[[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]]'')]]


[[File:Home-box.jpg|thumb|The Home Box discovered by [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] during the episode The Time Of Angels]]
[[File:Home-box.jpg|thumb|The Home Box discovered by [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')]]


==Examples==
==Examples==
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*[[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]]'')
:''This implies that the [[Renegade Dalek]]s would know how to interpret Gallifreyan writing.''
:''This implies that the [[Renegade Dalek]]s would know how to interpret Gallifreyan writing.''
*In the episode The Time Of Angels [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] finds a Home Box in a museum with symbols carved into it, which he describes as Old High Gallifreyan. He states the message reads "Hello Sweetie"
*[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] finds a Home Box in a museum with symbols carved into it, which he describes as Old High Gallifreyan. He states the message reads "Hello Sweetie" ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')


===Circular Gallifreyan===
===Circular Gallifreyan===

Revision as of 20:05, 29 April 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)
File:Home-box.jpg
The Home Box discovered by The Doctor. (DW: The Time of Angels)

Examples

Old High Gallifreyan

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.
  • The Doctor finds a Home Box in a museum with symbols carved into it, which he describes as Old High Gallifreyan. He states the message reads "Hello Sweetie" (DW: The Time of Angels)

Circular Gallifreyan

Previous to this, we had seen the TARDIS' displays, when they appeared, in English.

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