tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 12 10:27:11 2007
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Re: mu'tlhegh ngajqu'
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/11/2007 9:16:28 PM Central Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>> I've seen /DeghHom/ used for letters, IIRC. I think there are
>> differences, since the letter for "a" is pronounced differently if it's
>> "aw" or "ay", even though the same letter is used...
>>
> They're different in English, of course, but any differences in Klingon are
> simply allophones of the same sound, conditioned by the surrounding consonants.
But if your point was to use phonemes, that's much different. Instead of
having to use just the letter 'a' once, if you wanted a sentence using all
the *phonemes* from Klingon, you'd need to use CaC, Caw(') and Cay(')
(where C is any consonant) in order to get all the allophones of 'a'.
Just pointing out the difference between a letter and a sound. :)
It would be very interesting to see the shortest Klingon sentence that
could use all the various pronunciations of vowels in addition to the
consonants (which are fairly static)...
...Paul
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