tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 12 11:08:40 1997
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Re: pronunciation of tlh-H
> By the way, a tidbit about pronunciation I found that might interest you.
>I quote from TKD 1.2: "tlh- This sound is like nothing in English, but it is
>rather like the last sound in "tetl," the Aztec word for "egg," if properly
>pronounced." (I think that's what it says, at least.) I discovered from
>another person involved in languages that that's a misnomer. Aztec actually
>*has* that sound!
>
I have heard from one source (who's reliability I am not sure of) that
Okrand "borrowed" the sounds of the Klingon alphabet from known terran
languages. Can anyone confirm this source?
batlh bIHeghjaj!
Banzai
"I say there naughty-spawn, knock off all that evil!"--The Tick