tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 14 13:56:00 2001
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Re: K'Zhen Zu-Merz
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: K'Zhen Zu-Merz
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:55:34 CST
> > we haven't seen {wn} in one syllable either...
> > but it's his name...
> >
> > Marc Ruehlaender
> >
> I was thinking of it more as:
>
> | b | e | ' | r | aw | n |
>
> basically as I believe/d aw is mentioned in TKD as acting like a vowel
> itself eg it can take a glottal stop after the <w> in <aw> which it couldn't
> do without the <a>(e.g. chImlaw')
>
> aw = ow as in English cow
>
I probably should let the BG sort this out, but as I started talking
about it...
common wisdom, as I understand it, is that Klingon syllables are
either CV (consonant vowel)
or CVC (where aw etc count as VC, *not* as V)
or CVw' or CVy' or CVrgh
with the additional restriction that w, w' don't follow o, u
so be'rawn separates into syllables as be'-raw-n or be'-rawn,
but neither n nor rawn are "valid" syllables in the sense that
they follow this descriptive set of rules.
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
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