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Re: Gutturals (was Re: qung "pun")




[email protected] said:
> In German we do have both sounds, but the gh-sound only occurs after
> bright vowels, while the H-sound can occur after any kind of vowel: 

hmmm... I see it exactly reversed, maybe you're just mixing them up?

the Klingon {H} sounds similar to the German <ch> in <ach>,
while the {gh} is similar to the fricative allophone of /r/
which regularly occurs intervocalic (unless you trill your 'r's)

e.g. <Guru> has this sound and the second syllable should be
just like Klingon {ghu} (of course if you use tongue-tip
allophones of /r/, it'll sound like {ru}, and if you use
uvular trills, it'll not sound like Klingon at all... :)

therefore, I have to be careful not to insert a weak {a} sound
before syllable-final {gh}, which would be imitating the behaviour
of German /r/ in that position

e.g. <nur> does *not* rhyme with {tugh}

another tuppence worth of thought...


					Marc Ruehlaender
					aka HomDoq
					[email protected]




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