#Sherman's Gallifreyan

[ihavestolenyourkneecaps]

So, I tried to translate what was in the new sonic screwdriver with the Sherman's Gallifreyan.

And it's a bunch of non sense, it thanslates to "the bonguj fgifeet the nefechachp fa the otshavvi the bepnefeba fa".

There are some letters that are ambiguous "the bonguj fgife(e?)t the nef(e?)chachp f(a/e?) the otsha(vi/vvi?) the b(e?)pnef(e?)b(a/i?) f(a/e?)".

Taking the frase that is ment to be "the sharpness of the tongue defeats the sharpness of the warrior", the writing becomes:

Which is doesn't looks like the sonic, just the 4 "the"s that are equal, and it's supposed to be written in Kinyarwanda, also known as Ikinyarwanda or Urunyarwanda, that's the language spoken in Rwanda, but the meaning that the show gives us translates to "ubukana bwururimi butsinda ubukana bwintwali".

Which is nowhere close to the writing in the sonic.

With that said, I think the people who made the sonic searched a little in the fandom for our way to write in gallifreyan and then took what they found pretty and merged together because it looks like gallifreyan and the system is 99% Sherman's Gallifreyan but there are some discrepancies.

If you look in the second symbol what was supposed to be "ngu" is written wrong, the circle has 4 lines but the maximum amount is 3, I consider that to be "ng" + "u" because normally we would merged together the line of the "u" with another symbol of take it to the border or merged it with one of the lines in the "ng".

You can see as well in the third that between the "fe" and the "b" there's something, I read that as and "e" but it doesn't really makes sense if you consider that it has before it another "e", when there are doubles of a letter we just make it twice.

The sixth and eleventh are equally strange, it seems to be an "f" with something, it could be an "o" but it's too big and not close enough to the border, the only one I could think that its close enough it's the "a", because it's quirk is that it's always far but for the outside, this one is "far" but for the inside.

The eighth it's as well interesting, in what was supposed to be a "vi" the way is written makes it look live a "vvi". And the last, the tenth has what looks like a "ba" but looks like it has a dot in it but there aren't any single dots only two or three dots, so I just ignored it.

And I'm not even gonna talk about the slashed "e"s because that formed a pattern and I just assumed it's on propose.

In conclusion, or I'm dumb and can't read or they just put something inspired in the Sherman's Gallifreyan to look pretty and make us go slightly crazy but in the end it's just the the normal gallyfean that doesn't means a single thing.

Ps: sorry for any wrong words or terms, I'm brazilian and my english isn't perfect.

EDIT: I'M DUMB, thank you @mesimees and @typeforty for explaining the actual way of reading this, @mesimees rebloged this with a pretty simple explanation on how really to read this, thank you for the correction and it's really fucking awesome to discuss conlangs linguistics

[linguistwho]

I'm not sure if someone's asked this already, but have you been able to translate the Gallifreyan (gosh I'm bad at spelling) on the crib from Demon's Run?

The Gallifreyan on the Doctor's cot is not translatable. All forms of written Gallifreyan are fanmade and (until Sherman's Gallifreyan was recently used on Ncuti Gatwa's new Sonic) entirely noncanon.

Brittany G. made a form of Gallifreyan based on the design of the Doctor's cot (appropriately titled Doctor's Cot Gallifreyan) and my Linguist's Phonetic Gallifreyan is a variation on that, but as the art in Demon's Run was not written with any readable form of Gallifreyan in mind, we can still only speculate on the Doctor's birth name.

[thatsoverkill]

Clara Oswald - the Impossible Girl

[crustaceousfaggot]

Hey btw I'm learning Sherman's Circular Gallifreyan, so if anyone has any names, words, or short phrases (let's say... 6 words or less, or 8 words if they're shorter) that they wanna see translated, send me an ask because I want opportunities to practice. You can also add a colour if you want. Here are a couple examples.

(the gold says "his wife has filled his house with chintz", the monochrome says "something beautiful is going to happen" and the blue says "hello, sweety!")

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The trembling starlight of the skies

He saw there mirrored shimmering

[pl9090]

[Personal headcanon] Gallifreyan

Disclaimer: As the title says this is just how I think of and use what I consider to be the main fan created Gallifreyan font/languages. This is not me attempting impose it on everyone else as a definitive organisation just as reference for my work following this to avoid confusion.

Old High Gallifreyan: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/666099/archaic_gallifreyan

Modern Linear Gallifreyan: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/657463/assassin_s_gallifreyan

Timelord Circular/History coding: (Doctor's Cot) http://doctorscotgallifreyan.com/

Faction Paradox Circular/alt time coding: (Shermans) https://shermansplanet.com/gallifreyan/

[envexenveritas]

indestructible

This is definitely a reblog and not a correction because I made b and l the wrong shapes. Shh!

[doctahpants]

Practicing Sherman's circular Gallifreyan while frustrated with work means that this (hopefully) says "this is bullshit"

[ggtgwg]

Greetings all!

Geoffrey Groat here! I am currently trying to learn Sherman's gallifreyan. Feel free to send me asks for quotes or stuff to write down, I would love the practice!

I will try to write anything (except for crude/crass stuff), but I do tend to run out of energy past 2-3 small/medium sentences. I do enjoy adding in punctuation though.

So uhhh, yeah. Send me words please?

[fractalbeehive]

Greetings! I transcribed the last couple of lines from the Uranium Suite into circular gallifreyan, enjoy

Earth is sky and sky is ground

Did we finally leave our town?

[the-bad-art-blog]

More attempts at writing in gallifreyan! The top is the doctor's cot system by Brittany G. The bottom is in Sherman's/ circular gallifreyan (the same system as my last post).

Doctor's Cot:

Sherman's:

[nelissya]

[thatsoverkill]

"I've only got one life, Rose Tyler. I could spend it with you. If you want."

[autisticchangeling]

[Image is digital art showing circular Gallifreyan written in the Sherman’s Gallifreyan style. The Gallifreyan is in gold and glowing softly, and wisps of regeneration energy-like gold are surrounding it. The background is soft and abstract, blue on the bottom and orange on the top, reminiscent of a sunrise over water. End]

I finished some circular Gallifreyan based on The Power of the Doctor! The translation is “Tag! You’re it.”

[doc-wot]

heyyyyy gallifreyan community

if i wanted to try designing a crossover logo for the heck of it- using the original human lettering around the circumference, but with the main thing being in gallifreyan- what would i use for an "x" symbol? like, "doctor who x (different fandom)"? would I just use the glyph for the letter "x"? would I use one of the mathematical symbols for addition or multiplication?

the linguistics special interest compels me

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