Doctor Who thing: your name (or any text) in Gallifreyan.
This is a subreddit made for people who want to post their Circular Gallifreyan works, request works to be made, or want help with their Circular Gallifreyan. Instructions on how to write in this form can be found here (Go here for a direct link) and here. Please note that this gallifreyan language is not sanctioned by the BBC. Subreddit Rules.
Write your name in Gallifreyan. The writing of the Time Lords is a mysteriously beautiful system, but a little hard to understand. A fan-made downloadable program will do the translating for you.
Modern Gallifreyan Translator. Generate Random Sentence. Send. Gallifreyan-English translator. This is a very handy tool for engaging in conversation with Time Lords, too bad they are all dead.
There is no C; write S or K instead depending on the sound. Other than this, Gallifreyan follows letters and not sounds. These are the vowels. A more comprehensive diagram can be found here. And here’s the punctuation. More on that later. A Guide to the Gallifreyan Alphabet- Loren Sherman 1.
With a base-7 number system, the value of each digit within a number is different to the decimal (base-10) system. This means that 10 in Gallifreyan is 7 in decimal, and 100 in Gallifreyan is 49 in decimal, and 1000 in Gallifreyan is 343 in decimal. So, the year 2012 would be written as 5603 in Gallifreyan.
I’ve been getting a lot of people asking how I write in Gallifreyan and there’s a link to a info page here but I did make a more in-depth tutorial below. For starters, take a look at the linked page above, it shows you how to write each letter individually. The more complicated part is putting all the letters together into a word or the words together into a sentence. To show you how to.
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