tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 10 14:19:38 2006
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Re: -rgh (was Re: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb))
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: -rgh (was Re: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb))
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:19:17 +1000
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ghItlhpu' ter'eS:
>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.
This is very possible. I have heard that on the tapes, Okrand never trills
the {r} in words ending with the {-rgh} coda. However, it begs the question:
why does it exclusively happen with the final consonant {gh}?
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
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