tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 04 07:28:55 1999
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Re: Written Language: tlhingon Hol and pIqaD
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Written Language: tlhingon Hol and pIqaD
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 10:29:05 -0500
>> >... Additionally, there is
>> >often a numerical meaning assigned to some of the "letters". This could be
>> >reflected, not only in the counting system, but in the tlhingon musical
>> >note scale. (Klingons sing so I assume such an instructional scale
>> >exists.)
>>
>> Are you refering to:
>> yu, bIm, 'egh, loS, vagh, jav, Soch, chorgh, yu
>> (KGT p72)
>> The original klingon number system was ternary (1,2,3 / wa', cha', wej).
>> Later when they adapted the base ten system (to understand enemy technology)
>> they used words from their musical scale. Already having 1, 2, and 3 they
>> didn't use yu, bIm, 'egh for numbers; but continued with loS,... It is
>> uncertain where 9 (Hut) came from.
>
>Ah, thankyou. This explains much to me!
>
>As for Hut (9) came from, perhaps it was another word for wejwej (3x3) in
>the old tlhIngan counting system? MO would have to confirm, of course.
MO KGT p73 "...The origins of the words Hut ["nine"] and the suffix -maH,
used in the words for "ten", "twenty", "thirty", and so on, are obscure."
DloraH