tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 21 19:24:40 1996
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Re: Engishization of Klingon (Was: RE: KLBC a phrase about Honor)
> I count 32 separate phonemes (the consonants and vowels, the "double
> vowels" and the combination "rgh"). If my math is correct, you'd need
> 4,619 syllabic characters to represent all the possible C-V-C
> combinations. Seems kind of daunting to me.
Ok, maybe not. :) But you want efficient? How about the characters
representing whole affixes? Hmmmmm... <goes off and counts> that's 90 symbols.
Oh well, we'll see.
taDI'oS vIq, law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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