tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 10 17:30:34 1999
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Re: Klingon Phonetics
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, John Bowman wrote:
> nuqneH tlhIngan Hol jatlhwI'
>
> My name is John and I'm a student of linguistics.
>
> I see that there is no shortage of grammarians in this group, but I'm
> hoping that there are some phoneticians, as well.
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1. Does assimiliation ever occur in Klingon? For example,
>
> tIjwI'ghom vIchenmoH (I form a boarding party)
>
> Would "vIchenmoH" not be realized as "vIchemmoH" or "vIchennoH" in fast
> speech? Sounds tend to assimilate to place of articulation in English. I
> was wondering if that occured in spoken Klingon, as well. Another
> example:
>
> qonbej (It is certainly recording [or some such thing])
>
> In English, a construction like "in + balance" would be realized as
> "imbalance" because of assimilation.
>
> (No Borg jokes, please.)
>
> 2. Klingon has a restriction that only one consonent can occur in the
> coda (the end of a syllable), with the exception of the common "rgh"
> construction ["ghargh" (worm) and many others]. Why is it then that when
> Klingson borrowed "Picard" from English, it became "pIcarD"?
>
> Johnny B.
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>
YES!!! THANKYOU, LORD!!!
At last, somebody interested in the stucture of tlhIngan Hol as I am.
Johnny B., we simply MUST talk. :-)
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