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-rgh (was Re: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb))

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: -rgh (was Re: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb))
• Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:41:16 -0700 (PDT)
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--- QeS 'utlh <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

In which case, there is really another undocumented
consonant in Klingon similar to the Parisian /r/?

I have always suspected that this is a case of
r-coloring of the preceding vowel, so that there
really isn't a consonant cluster {rgh} but a
(vowel+r)+{gh} complex.

-- ter'eS

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  • vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb)
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