tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 30 19:33:19 1996
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Re: KLBC: Small grammar point
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Small grammar point
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 21:36:10 -0500
Soruk/toDbaj/whoever writes:
>I was under the impression (maybe wrong, someone please fill me in) that
>in tlhIngan Hol there were no instances of 2 vowels being run together.
We don't have any examples of two vowels without an intervening consonant.
>(flames to /dev/null...)
>Then I came across: ghuoy. Which started me thinking. (to be exact: Erm..)
>Can anyone shed any light on this for me?
Certainly. In the addendum to TKD, section 3.3.1, discussing {-oy},
Okrand has a parenthetical remark: "(Though there are no examples,
it is suspected that for those few nouns which end in a vowel, ' is
inserted before this suffix.)"
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj