tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 14 12:04:27 1999
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RE: Klingon Phonetics
- From: "John Bowman" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Klingon Phonetics
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 15:04:15 EST
>> 2. Klingon has a restriction that only one consonent can occur in the
>> coda (the end of a syllable), with the exception of the common "rgh"
>> construction ["ghargh" (worm) and many others]. Why is it then that
when
>> Klingson borrowed "Picard" from English, it became "pIcarD"?
>
>Actually, there are three exceptions: <rgh>, <y'>, and <w'>.
I wouldn't consider <y'> and <w'> to be exceptions to the coda rule. In
these cases, <w> and <y> form part of a diphthong (<aw> or <ey>, for
example) and are part of the nucleus (the vowel part of the syllable).
Still, I think it's unusual that you don't see constructions like <ayq>
or <uyD> in tlhIngnan Hol.
Johnny B.
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