tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 08 12:14:19 1996
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Phonology
- From: Consulat General de Pologne <#[email protected]>
- Subject: Phonology
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 15:11:20 EDT
Reading TKD I have found that the phonology section is very small.
And because of that form time to time the names you transcribe into
tlhIngan Hol break some basic phonological rules of the language.
1). No word or syllable begins with a vowel. It must take <'> in the
beginning.
The only known exception <-oy> is also dubious (see Addendum, 3.3.1).
2) No word or syllable begins with more than one consonant.
3) No word or syllable ends with more than one consonant, except
for three situations:
-w'
-y'
-rgh
4) Therefore, all the words that have a three-consonant cluster in the middle
other than <w'+C>, <y'+C>, <rgh+C> (where "C" stands for a syllable-beginning
consonant) break the basic phonological rule.
5) No words containing letters: f, k, x, z, c (not ch) and g (not gh) can be
considered legal tlhIngan-Hol words.
Maybe all this is known to you, but not observed.
macheq
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