tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 05 10:29:26 1998
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Re: Letter sounds question
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Letter sounds question
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 12:29:16 CST
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 04 Feb 1998 22:16:40 -0800
peHruS said:
> I am fluent in Chinese Mandarin (now called pu-tong-hua). I say that
> the S of tlhIngan Hol is very much like the x of pu-tong-hua.
then I've been taught wrong on at least one of the languages;
I've been taught (and I hear) Mandarin <x> (used to be <hs>) to be
produced with the blade of the tongue, while <sh> is produced with
the tip (both have the constriction at the same place, though)
thus <sh> is retroflex, which is what I understood Klingon <S>
to be, too
(neither of the Mandarin sounds is like English <sh>, but
Mandarin <sh> sounds like somewhere between English <s> and <sh>,
again something someone just said of Klingon <S>)
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]