tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 18 07:46:23 1999
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Re: greetings
- From: "marian danzig" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: greetings
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:45:31 PDT
[email protected] wrote:
> > what are the 'names' of the letters in the klingon alphabet? (ie >>in
>>english
> > we have 'ay' 'bee' 'see' 'cue' 'ess' 'double-u' 'wy' etc).
> > most of them for all intents and puposes would be the same, like a, t,
>y,
> > etc, but it gets kind of tedious saying 'big q', 'little q', and
> > 'apostrophe' (not to mention 'the t-l-h ligature'!), so do they have
>names?
> >
>Not as such, but here's a list *I* stink works well:
>
>b-baS
>ch-chal
>D-DeS
>gh-ghop
>H-HoH
>j-jat
>l-law'
>m-mIn
>n-nagh
>ng-ngem
>p-pong
>q-qul :-)
>Q-Qapla!
>r-rIn
>S-Sor
>t-tIn
>tlh-tlhuH
>v-veng
>w-wam
>y-yay
>'-'etlh
>
>Of course, *I* maintain that Klingon is written more like Chinese and so
>would have no actual letters.
>
QuljIb, i like it!! it may not be canon (is it?) but it gets
the job done. somebody should hit okrand with this question (and QuljiIb's
suggestion) so that we *do* have canon phonetics for the letters.
S'Qal
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