tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 29 06:42:03 2002

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]

Re: Alphabet

Monday, January 28, 2002, 7:43 AM ghItlh Cardassiano@aol.com
<Cardassiano@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Alphabet

>It sounds like that Klingon writing system may be more like that of Terran
>languages such as Chinese or Japanese using pictograms rather than actual
>letters. Or it could even be hirogliphs as in ancient Egyptian. We probably
>never know unless Mr. Okrand tells us.  But it is always fun to speculate.
>
>Qa'pla
>
>T. West

I vote for syllabary (like Sumerian, Akkadian, early Ugaritic and
Phoenician, modern Amkharic, Japanese Kana). It better suits the language...

Igor

Back to archive top level