tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 20 05:42:02 2006
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Re: Klingon D and Arabic Daad
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon D and Arabic Daad
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:41:38 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Rabbi Cashman:
>I started studying Arabic last month, and was told that Arabic is the
>only language with the sound produced by the letter Daad,
I believe that's fairly accurate. Although the numerous varieties of Arabic
realise the sound in different ways, the prototypical "daad" is actually a
combination of a normal "d" and raising of the body of the tongue to the
hard palate or the root of the tongue to the pharyngeal wall; the technical
term is "velarised" or "pharyngealised" - or possibly even both. The sound
in Klingon doesn't include the latter component, and I can't think of any
language (other than other Semitic languages, such as Ge'ez) that has the
sound.
>I immediately thought of the Klingon D
Klingon /D/ is more like the retroflex or "cerebral" /d/ found in numerous
Indian and Australian languages.
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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