Can the TARDIS speak?

Not only in space, but also in time. He can still communicate with Martha and a total stranger (Billy Shipton) who ends up in 1969 (this takes place about 22 minutes into the episode). If we accept that the Doctor speaks English on a native-level, he would speak both Gallifreyan and English roughly equally well.
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Does the Doctor speak English or Gallifreyan?

The Doctor does indeed talk in Gallifreyan everytime and has not even the faintest idea about speaking in English, according with Dead of Winter.
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What language do Time Lords speak?

Gallifreyan is the language spoken by the Time Lords of Gallifrey from the British TV show Doctor Who.
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Why does everyone speak English in Dr Who?

Keeping Doctor Who entirely in English makes sense for BBC. Having the TARDIS facilitate communication between multiple species is a fantastic move on behalf of the writers. Not only is it easily explained, but it's also a background feature that is used throughout Doctor Who without being noticed.
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Does the TARDIS translate?

Basically, the TARDIS converts what The Doctor and his companions speak to the language of the aliens they are talking to. And similarly, it captures what the aliens say, and translates it to English so that The Doctor and companions may understand it. It doesn't cause the aliens to speak English.
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Why does the TARDIS not translate Gallifreyan?

Sometimes two circles would overlap and cancel each other out. What if, like the drops of water in the puddle Gallifreyan as a text keeps shifting in size and shape. Perhaps even in 4th dimensional space. Maybe human brains aren't equipped to deal with this kind of language so the TARDIS can't translate it.
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Does the TARDIS translation Gallifreyan?

The Tardis can not translate anything from outside the web of time.
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Does Gallifrey have its own language?

The Gallifreyan language stemmed from the popular British TV show Doctor Who. It was spoken by the Time Lords of Gallifrey. The funny part is that the language wasn't created by the originators of Dr. Who but by a fan, Loren Sherman.
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What accent does the 13th doctor have?

Whittaker speaks in her native Huddersfield accent when playing her version of the Time Lord.
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What is the secret of the Face of Boe?

Played by Struan Rodger. Apparently dying in a New New York hospital, when the Face of Boe had watched the universe grow old, he told the Tenth Doctor that he would reveal his greatest secret to "one like himself", before he teleported himself away.
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What is the Doctor's Gallifreyan name?

Is Theta Sigma the Doctor's real name? Theta Sigma was the Doctor's unique nickname when he was studying at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey. Although this identified the Doctor from all the other Time Lords at the academy, the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) dismisses it as just a nickname in The Happiness Patrol.
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Why can no one know the Doctor's name?

Long story short: the Doctor lies. Recently, fans have hypothesized that the reason why the Doctor never speaks their own name is for their own safety. And the hypothesis also suggests that the only occasion for which a Time Lord would reveal their name is at the moment of their final death.
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How many languages does the doctor know?

If I remember correctly, it is in the episode "The Parting of Ways" That the doctor says he can speak five billion languages. He says 'speak,' so obviously the TARDIS isn't translating for him.
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Why did David Tennant change his name?

After discovering that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor's union Equity, he took his stage name from Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant after reading a copy of Smash Hits magazine. He later had to legally change his surname to meet Screen Actors Guild rules.
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Why did David Tennant change his accent for Dr Who?

The BBC has maintained that the decision to allow new Doctor Who Peter Capaldi to use his own Scottish accent was a creative one. Two Doctors ago, fellow Scotsman David Tennant was compelled to 'go English' when he took on the Timelord role.
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What is the 10th doctor's accent?

The Tenth Doctor speaks with an Estuary English accent, rather than the Lancashire dialect (Christopher Eccleston's own dialect) that the Ninth Doctor used, the Received Pronunciation of most earlier Doctors, or Tennant's natural Scottish English.
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How did river song know the Doctor's name?

"She learned the Doctor's name when the doctor last saw her". No, false. She never says when she learned his name. Rather, it is the (10th) Doctor himself who says that "there's only one situation where I would tell someone my name".
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What did Amy see in her room?

In series 6 of the new Doctor Who series, The God Complex episode, there is a room for everyone (maybe even Rory, we don't know for sure). Amy saw herself waiting for The Doctor as a child. It scared her and reminded her of her faith in The Doctor and made her reach for her faith, which the Minotaur would feed on.
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Are all Gallifreyans Time Lords?

There are still Gallifreyans whom are not Time Lords, some which lived outside of the Capital Cities. There are also non-Timelord farmers in the series such as in the episode Hell Bent. Essentially from all this we can determine that Time Lords are Gallifreyan but a Gallifreyan may not always be a Time Lord.
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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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Do Time Lords exist in parallel universes?

So the Time Lords being present allowed travel to parallel dimensions. Once they were no longer there, it "locked" the universe, preventing Time Lords from other universes from accessing ours and vice versa.
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Why did the TARDIS not translate judoon?

The TARDIS does not translate their language, because it is the universal law, like The Shadow Proclamation, and the Doctor replies in their language rather than in English. They only begin speaking English once he has introduced himself.
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Is Doctor Who still a woman?

Jodie Whittaker on saying goodbye to Doctor Who: 'I thought, what if I've ruined this for actresses? ' Jodie Whittaker made history in 2017 when she took over from Peter Capaldi and became the 13th Doctor in Doctor Who, making her the first woman to ever play the time-travelling alien with two hearts.
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Is the Doctor Gallifreyan?

The Doctor is no longer from Gallifrey

She's found as a child on a planet far from Gallifrey, though it's implied that even this remote world is not her true home and that she actually arrived from somewhere else via the Boundary, a gateway to other parts of the universe. So the Doctor is not Gallifreyan.
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