tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 01 14:37:05 2003
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Re: New Member/Syll... correction
ja' qeyS:
>I never SPEAK Klingon so I wouldn't know, but I expected
>either a Glottal Stop or some kind of assimilation where a
>noun with final vowel is followed by the {oy} suffix.
Assimilation is nearly unknown in Klingon. The only example we have is
where a trailing {n} or {ng} has apparently been dropped when forming a
compound with {ngan}:
{vulqan} + {ngan} -> {vulqangan}
{orghen} + {ngan} -> {orghengan}
There is absolutely no reason to expect vowel assimilation. Klingon
phonology avoids abutted vowels quite effectively.
>That
>the final vowel and the /oy/ diphthong are turned into a new
>sound (diphthong or triphthong).
{oy} in the Klingon endearment suffix is not a diphthong. The Klingon {y}
there is a consonant.
>the name Mara could become /mara-oy/ --> /maroy/ in fast
>speech perhaps. I don't know. It just seems more natural
>than inserting a glottal stop or a /gh/, although a /w/
>doesn't seem that weird.
It could perhaps end up being pronounced that way, but based on other
comments in KGT about "lazy speech" I suspect it would be considered
substandard.
-- ghunchu'wI'