tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 10 06:28:09 2006
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vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb)
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb)
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:27:43 +1000
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ghItlhpu' lay'tel SIvten:
>{rgh} is anomalous: Is it one consonant or two? It looks like two, but it
>acts like one.
And a bizarre one at that, only being able to appear in the syllable coda.
Alan Wechsler's paper in HolQeD 1:1 analyses the coda {-rgh} as a remnant of
an old voiced counterpart to {Q}, which I think sounds like a reasonable
idea.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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