tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 18 16:36:52 2000
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RE: help me explain
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> ' is a consonant. It is a letter of the alphabet just like all the other
> letters. Our observation of klingon tells us that we can't group consonants
> together like that in the same syllable.
> (c = consonant, v = vowel)
> A klingon syllable is: [ cvc ], or [ cv ], and a few special
> exceptions of [ cvcc ].
That's the rule I"m looking for.
Therefore K (which really should be q )' is not allowable in tlhIngan Hol
but q and any vowel is allowable. That's why B'Elanna is really be'elanna
and B'Etor is really be'etor and not the way they write it otherwise.
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> Likewise, you can't have two vowels together in the same syllable.
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> DloraH
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