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Re: Pronounciation of " Qapla' "

QeS lagh ([email protected])



ghItlhpu' Voragh:

>{bI'reS} - beginning (of an opera, play, story, speech, etc.)

I'm not so sure that this can be tendered as evidence, since it's not a name 
of any sort and there's no evidence (internally, at least) to say that it's 
been borrowed. {vIlInHoD} is similar in that respect.

>{ghI'boj Sech} - Torch of G'boj (PN? GN?)

Interesting that you say that. I've often wondered whether {ghI'boj Sech} 
might actually be a metaphor to refer to something other than a torch - 
maybe another volcano that has some special significance in Klingon 
mythology, since it's said that Qo'noS is more seismically active than 
Earth. Unprovable, of course. :)

>{pIqarD} - Picard (PN)

tagha'! Along with {qIrq}, it seems we have some proof that Klingons don't 
have so much trouble with clusters as we might like to believe. Even though 
it's a foreign borrowing, there's no helping vowel to be seen. That being 
said, I am surprised to note the {r}. In the word {'entepray'}, there's no 
{r} inserted, and when Picard pronounces his own name, you don't hear an {r} 
because he has a British accent.

>So the solution to the "cluster questions" may be that {tlhIngan Hol} per 
>se - i.e. the "current" privileged dialect (originally spoken in the First 
>City Region?) - has no clusters, but it does permit them in borrowings.

Or perhaps there was another dialect, which was {ta' Hol} at some time in 
the past, that *did* have a tendency to drop {I} in some places; maybe the 
"old" transcription reflects that dialect rather than the most modern one 
(so *{vghro'}, *{braqlul}). Quite a few Terran languages have dialects that 
differ in whether they preserve or drop such lax vowels (usually schwa) 
between consonants. Just another theory. {{:)

Savan,

QeS lagh
taghwI' pabpo' / Beginners' Grammarian


not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' qan je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
     - Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh

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