tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 13 05:49:52 2003
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Re: New Member/Syllabification
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:28:06 -0500
"Christopher A. Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My name is Chris Jones and I am pleased to be a part of
> this group. My
> Klingon name is Ngarakkani (Klingon spelling
> unknown--Help on that needed).
Would /ngaraqanI/ be something? Are velar plosives allowed
in initial position in Klingon? Can't remember and don't
have the TKD on me at the moment. Probably. Perhaps put a
glottal stop in somewhere because it always looks nice and
it sounds nice (i.e. sounds Klingon).
I was just wondering, you'd probably insert a glottal stop
in initial or final position, right? At least I assume that
there are no consonant clusters with glottal stops in
Klingon.
The point is: how would you break off a word into tinier
bits in Klingon? Any rules on that?
Are their any rules known concerning Klingon syllables? (for
example that they MUST start with a consonant or
something...)
If the rules would cause /ngaraqanI/ to be broken up thus:
/ngar-a-qan-I/ then one could not insert a glottal stop
between /a/ and /r/, but then it would have to be inserted
before the /a/ (ngar'aqanI). If you'd want to put a glottal
stop after /nga/ thus rendering /nga'raqanI/ then the
division into syllables would have to be /nga-ra-qa-nI/.
Any Klingon syllable rules?
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