tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 14 12:22:31 1999
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Re: Klingon Phonetics
- From: "John Bowman" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon Phonetics
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 15:22:16 EST
>>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].
>
>There isn't any actual "restriction" given anywhere. It's just an
>observation about the vocabulary. (And there are also {w'} and {y'}
>clusters seen at the end of syllables.)
A rule that can be deduced from the vocabulary of a language *is* a
restriction. In English, for example, there are no words that begin with
two stops together; that is restriction in English. It is not in other
languages (remember the Tkon Empire? :-) Seriously, in many African
languages constructions like "gb" and "pt" are common
Johnny B.
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