tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 27 20:20:16 1996

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Re: 'oy''a'

>is this proper, and how would it be pronounced?

"Is this proper" for what?  I can translate it two ways:
as a question "does it hurt?" or as a noun "great pain".

And it's pronounced exactly as it is spelled.  No, I'm not being
facetious.  TKD section 1 describes pronunciation, and there's a
good description with audio samples on the KLI web site at the
following URL:

http://www.kli.org/kli/sounds.html

I guess that double <''> in the middle is worth asking about; in
fact, there was a discussion about pronouncing paired stops here
a while ago.  Some of us pronounce them with a slight voicing in
between them, others simply prolong a pause between them.  You'd
better join us at qep'a' wejDIch and listen for yourself!

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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