tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 10 08:15:24 1999
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Re: Vowels
- From: Carleton Copeland <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Vowels
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:15:28 +-400
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TKD makes no distinction between English and Klingon *y*, but I wonder ...
The Russian equivalent of *y* (*i kratkoye*) is pronounced with an audible
friction. (You can trust me on this; a phonetics teacher once marked me
down big-time for gliding over it.) If Klingon's *y* were similar, it
would sound harsher (and so more Klingon) and also sit more firmly in the
consonant category, at least by quljIb's definition. (Russian *y* is a
full consonant.)
qa'ral