Old High Gallifreyan [OHF]
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Old High Gallifreyan
Galifreyem [galifɾeem]*
Old High GallifreyanGalifreyem [galifɾeem]*
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersOld High Gallifreyan is spoken by a population of 5 in Gallifrey.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old High Gallifreyan
Old High Gallifreyan was the language spoken on Gallifrey (Home to the Time Lords) around the time of Rassilon. By the time of The Doctor; it would of been very archaic. It is the predecessor to Modern Gallifreyan, and OHG was written in in the “Gallifreyan Omegabet”, whilst MG’s written in Circular Gallifreyan, a system of interlocking symbols, and is probably logographic. The Doctor knows OHG.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | ɢ | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | ħ | h | ||||||
| Affricate | t̪͡θ | d̪͡ð | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | k͡x | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old High Gallifreyan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Old High GallifreyanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | AA aa/æ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | DTH dth/d̪͡ð/ | Éé/ɛ/ | Êê/ə/ | Ee/e/ |
| Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | Hh/h/ | HH hh/ħ/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/ɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/x/ |
| KKH kkh/k͡x/ | Ll/l/, /l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | QQ qq/ɢ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
| SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/ð/ | TΘ tθ/t̪͡θ/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | Θθ/θ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
