tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 01 19:35:12 1999
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Klingon Speakers Now Outnumber Navajo Speakers
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- Subject: Klingon Speakers Now Outnumber Navajo Speakers
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 22:33:31 EDT
July 29- August 4
1999
NEW YORK- According to a report released Monday by the Modern Language
Association, speakers of the Star Trek-based Klingon language out-number
individuals fluent in Navajo by a margin of more than seven-to-one.
"Navajo, a 3,000-year-old language belonging to the Athabaskan/Na-Dene
group of tongues, is clearly dying and will likely be extinct by 2010," MLA
president Frederick Toback said. "Fortunately, though, the sad, steady
decline of this once-proud Native American tongue has been more than offset
by a rising interest in Klingon culture."
Klingon speakers said they are pleased with the report. "Every day, more
and more people are discovering the excitement and challenge of Klingon, or,
as it's called by native speakers, tlhIngan-Hol," said Doug "Hod trI'Qal"
Peterson, an official grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute. After
just a few weeks of studying Klingon, you, too will be saying 'qo' mey poSmoH
Hol!'"
"For those new to the language," Peterson continued, "a terrific place to
start is Marc Okrand's The Klingon Dictionary
(there's more, but I have to do something, sorry... and I'm not on the list
either, I used to be but I forgot how to join.)