tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 31 16:38:36 1996
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Re: 'oy''a'
At 10:18 PM 28/5/96 -0700, voqHa'wI' wrote:
>Scott writes:
>
>> ...also how is a ' in the begining of a word pronounced? That is not
>> covered in TKD.
>
>The glottal stop is pronounced the same as in the English glottal stop
>that appears at the start of words that are spelt with an initial vowel,
>eg Klingon {'a} should be pronounced rather like English {ah}, right?
I think not, in the case of {'a} you would pronounce the glotal stop before
the {a}, thus making it similar to the {ah} pronounced as if you breath in,
other wise you'd say {a').
Qapla'
beHwI"av