tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 03 21:12:13 2003
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Re: {oy}, diphthong or V+C
ja' HomDoq:
>IMO, it is much more a matter of perception, and judging
>from the absence of syllables ending in -oyb, -oych, -oyD
>etc. the Klingon ear more probably experiences -oy as VC
>(and -oy' as VCC).
I'd be happy to accept {y'}, {w'}, and {rgh} as special cases, where a pair
of sounds is treated as a single unit (which happens to occur only at the
end of a syllable).
There are two other "officially documented" places where {r} participates
in a consonant cluster, but they're both renditions of non-Klingon names:
{qIrq} and {pIqarD}.
-- ghunchu'wI'