tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 25 08:36:19 2008
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Re: idea for writing system
maj. That would be weird as hell. Sounds good.
>
> Some inspirations for you.
>
> - The Klingon language's basic subject/verb/direct object
> sentence structure is the reverse of English, i.e.:-
>
> OBJECT - VERB - SUBJECT
>
> So perhaps reversing the direction of writing might help.
> One could make it complex by retaining the right-to-left
> order of the words, but writing each word left-to-right.
>
> - Nouns are modified by a series of suffixes, of which
> there are five types:-
>
> NOUN - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
>
> So one could make one symbol suffice for one suffix.
>
> - Verbs are similarly modified by suffixes; however, they
> are preceded by a prefix which defines the subject and,
> where there is one, the direct object:-
>
> PREFIX - VERB - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9
>
> Two complications arise when you realise that Klingon
> imperatives are also expressed through specific imperative
> prefixes, thus increasing the range of prefixes for which
> you will need to find symbols, and also the presence of
> rovers, non-fixed suffixes which can be placed anywhere in
> the list, within the rules set for each suffix.
>
> - Finally, certain words (e.g. veS, Suv, quv, qIp,
> tlhIngan, SuvwI', batlh, Hegh, HoH) might have a single
> symbol all to themselves, representing their historical and
> cultural importance: they figure so heavily in
> communications that a literal spelling out of the words is
> no longer necessary.
>
> For the rest, you spell the words out with something like a
> syllabary approach. Klingon syllables begin either with a
> consonant or a '. I don't think an exception to this rule
> has ever turned up in the three vocabularies.
>
> Hope this has inspired you.
>
>
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