tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 09 13:30:40 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] words for the letters
Voragh:
>>> I vaguely remember this, but I don't have it in my notes.
>>> Lieven, if you've kept it would you post the original post? Thanks.
Michael Roney, Jr.:
> This is the message that was first sent to the list:
>
> There are names for the individual sounds of spoken Klingon.
> These are not really the letters of an alphabet [though with the phonetic
> transcription we use, the distinction is very fine]. They follow a very
> simple pattern: consonants' names consist of the sound followed by {ay},
> and vowels' names consist of the sound preceded by {'} and followed by
> {t}. The glottal stop sound is an exception, being called {qaghwI'},
> though this longish name is often eschewed in favor of a simple grunt of
> the sound itself.
Thanks naHQun. I did have some of this in my notes for {qaghwI'}. For those interested, it was posted by ghunchu'wI' reporting on qep'a' 17 (7/27/2009).
gheyIl:
>> Would you be comfortable using these words for the letters themselves
>> ... as in spelling out a word?
>> {chay' pongwIj vIghItlh? ghay 'et yay 'It lay}
>>> I suppose they could be the names for the tiles in Scrabble, but how
>>> else would you use these "words"?
Hmm...
<<San rutlh>> vIQapmeH bay majyang HInob!
Give me a 'B' tile to win Wheel of Fortune!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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