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The term 'Old Piscean' is used to describe Piscean language (between 2005 and 2007) that is in any way dissimilar to the [[Piscean_language|modern dialect]]. Old Piscean technically has several stages and was changed by Anderson rapidly. However, few records of the language remain and it is currently understood to have had two or three major transitions, the first of which is barely mutually intelligible with modern Piscean, while the last of which is closely related. Old Piscean was always written using the Latin alphabet, before the introduction of the [[Andersonic alphabet]], which defined a new age in the language. | The term 'Old Piscean' is used to describe Piscean language (between 2005 and 2007) that is in any way dissimilar to the [[Piscean_language|modern dialect]]. Old Piscean technically has several stages and was changed by Anderson rapidly. However, few records of the language remain and it is currently understood to have had two or three major transitions, the first of which is barely mutually intelligible with modern Piscean, while the last of which is closely related. Old Piscean was always written using the Latin alphabet, before the introduction of the [[Andersonic alphabet]], which defined a new age in the language. | ||
==Early Old Piscean== | |||
Early Old Piscean, then referred to as Gallifreyan after the name of the protagonist's home planet in the popular science-fiction programme ''Doctor Who'', was an extremely basic variety of the language. It began as the fictional 'vulgar' language of the Time Lords in Anderson's abandoned novel ''Wasporella'', one of the only remaining sources that proved Gallifreyan's existence. | |||
Revision as of 12:51, 22 November 2007
The term 'Old Piscean' is used to describe Piscean language (between 2005 and 2007) that is in any way dissimilar to the modern dialect. Old Piscean technically has several stages and was changed by Anderson rapidly. However, few records of the language remain and it is currently understood to have had two or three major transitions, the first of which is barely mutually intelligible with modern Piscean, while the last of which is closely related. Old Piscean was always written using the Latin alphabet, before the introduction of the Andersonic alphabet, which defined a new age in the language.
Early Old Piscean
Early Old Piscean, then referred to as Gallifreyan after the name of the protagonist's home planet in the popular science-fiction programme Doctor Who, was an extremely basic variety of the language. It began as the fictional 'vulgar' language of the Time Lords in Anderson's abandoned novel Wasporella, one of the only remaining sources that proved Gallifreyan's existence.
