tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 15 10:08:41 1997
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Re: pronunciation of tlh-H
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: pronunciation of tlh-H
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message fromCarey and/or Bryce Fields on Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:21:21 -0700 (PDT))
>Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:21:21 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Carey and/or Bryce Fields <[email protected]>
>
>I have heard from one source (who's reliability I am not sure of) that
>Okrand "borrowed" the sounds of the Klingon alphabet from known terran
>languages. Can anyone confirm this source?
It's hard (but not impossible) to make up usable sounds that *some*
language hasn't already used somewhere (I think I can think of a few, but I
haven't researched them and hardly know ALL languages to check). I
understand, though (and Okrand has said this, in interviews, in his panel
discussion in Huntsville, etc), that Klingon has no sound that isn't used
by *some* other language. It's weird in that it has, say, a retroflex D
but not a retroflex T, and an alveolar t but not a d, etc. Some of the
sounds are a bit on the rare side (tlh isn't THAT common, I understand, and
Q quite rare), but none are completely unused (Lawrence, I think, (or was
it 'Iwvan?) once told me of a language that was one of the few that had Q,
but I forget which).
~mark