tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 24 00:04:03 2006
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Re: Ubykh via Klingon?
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Ubykh via Klingon?
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:03:28 +1000
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jIghItlhpu', jIja':
>I learn the Ubykh language, which has many sounds in common with Klingon,
>and I have found that since I started speaking Klingon, my Ubykh
>pronunciation has got noticeably better because I am more used to making
>those sounds foreign to English.
mujang Voragh, ja':
>Did you tell your Ubykh teacher your secret? What was the reaction?
ghojmoHwI'? ghojmoHwI'wI' jIH'e'. Heghpu' Holvetlh. {{:)
It's mainly the Klingon retroflex {S} that has helped, although the Klingon
{Q} is also a very common allophone of the Ubykh phoneme /q/.
>Esperantists tout the virtue of using Esperanto as a relatively simple
>"bridge language" for people before learning their first foreign natural
>language. Similarly, many beginners have commented that learning Klingon
>(and reading Mailing List) helped them immensely in understanding basic
>grammatical principals and got them over that "Why doesn't [language] work
>like English?" barrier that afflicts so many novice learners. I don't
>remember if any of them ever told their teachers about the value of
>learning Klingon first.
>This gives yet another meaning to the KLI slogan {qo'mey poSmoH Hol}
>"Language opens worlds". <g>
Indeed. I've often thought that Klingon's a priori nature makes it about as
close as we'll ever get to a workable true IAL; the fact that no language
has all of the phonemes found in Klingon, as well as the large number of
points of articulation found in Klingon phonemes, mean that it's a good
exercise in phonetics; and its small lexicon means both that it's relatively
easy to acquire a competitive working vocabulary, and that it makes you
think more about how you're going to say what you're going to say. I reckon
that these reasons are part of why Klingon tends to draw linguistically
inclined people rather than Star Trek fans.
Once you've had Klingon, you'll never go back. {{:)
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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