tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 18 15:04:42 1996
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chIagu
- From: Consulat General de Pologne <#[email protected]>
- Subject: chIagu
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 18:03:57 EDT
"Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Sun, 14 Apr 1996 [email protected] wrote:
> >> I was pondering the possibilities for a klingon name
> >> My name is Thiago.
> >> Anyway here are a few ideas:
> >> chIaghu
> >> chI'aghu'
> >> chI'aghu
>
> >My suggestion is (as in the subject line) chIyaghu. I have made a couple
> >of assumptions in recommending this. First is that the "i" in your name
> >is pronounced as would be the English "ee".
>
> Whichever you choose, don't choose "*chIaghu". The vowel-hiatus in midword
> (between I and a) is unattested in Klingon, and indeed is almost certainly
> forbidden (Okrand says that an epenthetic ' is "suspected" of being
> inserted to prevent it in the case of -oy added to nouns ending in vowels).
>
> ~mark
Sanskrit doesn't accept hiatus and avoids it either through elision of one
of the vowels, or combining two similar vowels into one long vowel, or
through combinning them into a diphtong, or into a cluster [semi-vowel +
vowel], or ... (enough).
Contrary to what you have written to Thiago it's just the contrary with
Klingon. It accepts hiatus and always marks it with a special letter,
namely {'}.
You should have rather said: "Klingon doesn't accept smooth passage
from one vowel to another and always demands a hiatus, i.e. a glottal stop."
Let me quote from a dictionary: "Hiatus: a slight pause between two vowels
that come together in successive syllables or words, such as
between the e's in preeminent (<Latin: hiatus, gap)".
Maybe you understand something else by this, but that's what I
have learned about it - hiatus is a glottal stop.
Qapla'
macheq
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