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Re: {-Iy'} syllables

QeS 'utlh ([email protected])



jIghItlhpu', jIja':
>Maybe Klingon generally abhors complex codas when the vowel is {I}? It's
>interesting to note that in addition to the total lack of {CIw'} and {CIy'}
>syllables, there are only two known {CIrgh} syllables, {chIrgh} and 
>{SIrgh}.

mujang Voragh, ja':
>Klingon also doesn't seem to like the less complex ending {CIy} either.  I 
>could only find four in TKD:

Hm. It seems that there is a similar abhorrence of {CIw} as well: {lIw} 
"replacement", {mIw} "procedure", {pIw} "odour" and {'Iw} "blood".

QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute


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