tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 06 14:08:30 1996
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Re: New here
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>Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:41:59 -0700
>From: [email protected] (chavez)
>I just joined the list and will be getting a Klingon dictionary soon but I
>was wondering if there's different dialects of Klingon? Also, is there any
>sites I can visit to help me learn Klingon?
Well, a good site, obviously, is the Klingon Language Institute's web site,
http://www.kli.org/. And I know I've seen you on the MUSH (sorry I've been
busy there).
Dialects... Well, there are lots of answers. Before there was tlhIngan
Hol, of course, there was John Ford's Klingonaase (from a Star Trek novel),
which has nothing in common with tlhIngan Hol aside from being ascribed to
the same race of aliens. Is that another dialect? Or a conflict from
outside the Paramount canon? You decide.
Okrand speaks of different dialects of tlhIngan Hol, with different
pronunciations and even different lexica, at least in part to help cover up
for the various atrocities committed upon the language by actors and
script-writers. But he only formally describes one dialect, and I guess
that's really the only one we can learn with anything really to go on.
Not sure that answers quite what you were looking for...
~mark
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