tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 12 16:58:53 2002
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Re: Critical (glottal) Stop
At 14:37 2002-06-12 -0700, Nancy Nielsen-Brown wrote:
>In preparing my vocabulary lists, I have been searching for word pairs in
>which a glottal stop (') is a single distinguishing point. It is far too
>easy for me to miss the stop unless I give it a bit of "special attention".
>This is the list I've compiled - Are there any others I may have missed?
I'd expect that there wouldn't be many cases where ' contrasts with nil,
because there are so few CV (or VC) roots in Klingon:
/tlhIngan-Hol/2002/February/msg00611.html
So I'd bet you've found them all, or at least most of them!
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Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/