tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 18 10:59:24 2000
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RE: KLBC: ['] at the beginning of words
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: ['] at the beginning of words
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:00:50 -0700
ghel Darq. jatlh:
>>>
English words beginning with a vowel usually have a glottal stop (I hope I'm
using the right term) before you hear the vowel sound. In Klingon, does
having a ['] character in front of words such as ['uS] mean there's two
glottal stops before you hear the [u] sound, or does this just mean the
sound is just recognized and indicated with a ['] character in Klingon?
>>>
The initial glottal stop just makes explicit what is implicit in English and
many other Earth languages.
pagh
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