tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 13 05:51:56 2003
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Re: New Member/Syll... correction
I meant "velar nasal", not "velar plosive", before anyone
starts correcting me on that...
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:57:14 +0100
"C. Krottje" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
>
> <qeyS>