Gallifreyan (language)

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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.
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An example of Gallifreyan script written by the Doctor. (DW: The Deadly Assassin)
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The Home Box discovered by The Eleventh Doctor. (DW: The Time of Angels)

Examples

Old High Gallifreyan

Main article: 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.

Circular Gallifreyan

Previous to this, we had seen the TARDIS' displays, when they appeared, in English.
  • Simpler handwritten circles appear on The Doctor's Betamax tape used to trap The Wire, and are scribbled over, presumably saying what the contents of the tape were at one time. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern)
  • 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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