Alphabet and Basic Structure

The alphabet is very confusing to people who have only ever learned linear-languages. I am not the first person to try to teach this alphabet to the citizens of the Earth. Loren Sherman has written what she calls Circular Gallifreyan which is very similar to the alphabet of Krono Gallifreyan. Her original guide at http://www.shermansplanet.com/gallifreyan is suggested that those who wish to learn Krono Gallifreyan. A basic to moderate understanding of Circular Gallifreyan makes learning Krono Gallifreyan easier.

Unlike in English where paragraphs are made by stringing sentences together, paragraphs are written by stringing sentence circles together in what are called paragraph chains. What would be single sentences in English can written as one sentence circle or split into multiple sentence circles. When reading the sentence circles the current sentence circle is referred to as the instant sentence circle. The sentence circles leading into the instant sentence circle are called ante sentence circles. The sentence circles after the instant sentence circle is the extra sentence circles.

To indicate the start point of the writing draw a bulls eye (a circle with a dot inside) on the first sentence circle. (Note: if there is no bulls eye the default is the bottom)The first word is directly counter clockwise of the start point. The letters inside the word start on the side closest to the line of the sentence circle (the outside) and go counter clockwise from there. All of the instant sentence circle must be finished before going on to the extra sentence circle even if it looks like the extra sentence circle is in the middle of the instant sentence circle. The first word of the extra sentence circle is directly counter clockwise of the instant sentence circle. When multiple extra sentence circles are attached to the instant sentence circle they are read in counter clockwise order.

Overlaying of sentence circles looks slightly different than in Circular Gallifreyan. More information and a picture is coming soon.

For the most part, there is no punctuation in Gallifreyan. Ideas are instead separated by the different sentence circles. The exceptions to this is question marks and the two different types of quotation marks. The question marks appear directly after the part in question.

For instance: "Are you buying spaghetti?" could be

• You? BuY SPaGHeTti - Are you the person that is buying spaghetti?
• You BuY? SPaGHeTti - Are you obtaining spaghetti through the act of purchasing it?
• You BuY SPaGHeTti? - Are you buying spaghetti or something else?

For the different types of quotation marks they are on the line of the sentence circle before the first word. Unlike in Circular Gallifreyan, a single quotation mark (') is indicated by one line and a double quotation mark (") is indicated by two lines. These lines are not like those found on letters that touch on the letter and then go away for an indeterminate amount of time. Instead they act as a tally on the sentence circle. An example would look like this: ---+---- or ----++-----. Quotations are put in a separate sentence circle which has a double quotation mark at the beginning. Single quotation marks are put around the words in question but are only used as a way to indicate that they are mimicking someone else's use of the word and not for whole quotations.