Teegarden Gallifreyan By James Teegarden (spacebass, giovanni-bottesini)
For those who expressed interest in my Gallifreyan conlang, here it is! It is, and likely will always be, a work in progress as we learn more about the language and further develop it, but my goal is to have a language that we can learn and speak and write and translate our favourite quotes into and speak in code!
Working off of @intuitive-revelations‘s excellent post outlining what we already know about the language - a single complete sentence and a handful of loosely translated words - I have created a grammar and sentence structure that is centered heavily around Gallifrey’s time-travelling culture. You can learn more about it in the document, but a translation of the sentence we hear in Cold Fusion is:
I turned around and they were all wearing eyepatches.
Which we hear in Gallifreyan as:
oolata faroon e ifey marta metryon
‘oo’ is a root for the first person singular pronoun, or ‘self’. ‘la’ is a temporal modifier, indicating the ‘self’ referred to is the speaker (the Doctor)’s current incarnation. ‘ta’ is a temporal modifier, indicating the ‘self’ referred to exists within an isolated context, in this case being that of a story. Therefore, ‘oolata’ means ‘my current self, at the time’
‘faro’ is a root verb meaning ‘to rotate’. ‘on’ is a temporal modifier, indicating past tense. Therefore, ‘faroon’ means ‘rotated’, or ‘turned around’.
‘e’ means ‘and’, in the context of a conjunction.
‘i’ is a root for the third person singular pronoun, or ‘they’. ‘fey’ indicates a paucal - or few in number - noun. Therefore, ‘ifey’ means ‘they, a small group’
‘mar’ is an adjective meaning ‘all’. ‘ta’ is a temporal modifier, indicating that ‘all’ exists within an isolated context, in this case only referring to the small group previously indicated. Therefore, ‘marta’ means ‘all of the small group’.
‘me’ is a prefix which turns an adjective into a verb. ‘try’ is an adjective, meaning ‘blind’. ‘on’ is a termporal modifier, indicating past tense. Therefore, ‘metryon’ means ‘were blinded’.
Therefore, ‘oolata faroon e ifey marta metryon’ translates directly to ‘my current self, at the time, turned around and all of the small group were blinded’.
