tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 31 22:03:20 1996
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Re: 'oy''a'
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: 'oy''a'
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 00:06:45 -0500
Scott McCool writes:
>also how is a ' in the begining of a word pronounced? That is not
>covered in TKD.
An initial vowel at the start of an english sentence is usually preceded
by a glottal stop, the sound represented by the Klingon letter {'}. Try
listening closely to the beginning of the two words "it" and "hit". When
"it" is spoken in isolation by a native speaker of english, there's almost
always an abrupt release of breath at the start of the vowel -- that's a
glottal stop. It's very similar to the word "kit" except that "k" is a
velar stop. [The term "stop" means that the breath is completely cut off
somewhere in the vocal tract; "glottal" refers to the bottom of the throat,
and "velar" refers to the back of the top of the mouth (the soft part).]
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj