tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 08 09:24:30 2008
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RE: KLBC: New to the List
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: New to the List
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:23:04 -0800 (PST)
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--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>There have been a couple of proper names that
> didn't conform to
> >>>this, but they have all been borrowed from
> other languages, like
> >>>{jon luq pIqarD}.
>
> Interestingly, the string {-arD-} is present in just one
> other word that I know of:
>
> Cardassia is both {qarDaS} and {qarDaSya'}. [KGT p.
> 142]
>
> Note BTW that this is another foreign proper name. This
> tells us that Klingons view the combination {qarD} as
> pronounceable, even though it doesn't appear in any
> native tlhIngan Hol words.
>
>
My personal theory is that the "r" found paired with a vowel at the end of syllables (as here, or in {'argh}), is not the same, fully-consonantal "r" that begins the word {ragh}, for example, but is actually a coloring on the preceding vowel, a feature known in English as R-controlled vowels. For consistency, I guess I'd also consider diphthongs using Vy or Vw to also be non-consonantal uses of "y" and "w" (which is know as an off-glide). This way, the syllable pattern of Klingon can be described without any exceptions, i.e.:
CV(C) where C is any Klingon consonant,
V is V, Vy, Vw or Vr (or, V(y/w/r)), and
(C) is optional.
-- ter'eS
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