tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 05 15:04:51 2008
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RE: KLBC: New to the List
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: New to the List
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:02:31 -0800 (PST)
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--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Ted Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. I do have a question specifically about the marking of
> diphthongs and vowels at the end of words.
>...
> Is
> there specific rhyme or reason to the presence or absence of
> the glottal stop?
>
The glottal stop is a full-fledged consonant in Klingon, on equal footing with B, D, gh, etc., not a punctuation feature. The short answer is that a word has a glottal stop if Marc Okrand gave it one when he made it up.
Klingon syllables are predominantly CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant). In some cases, the V can be a diphthong. The final consonant can be any consonant, including '. But, as you have noticed, some Klingon syllables are CV only. There is no pattern to it. But a syllable ending in a V vowel has _no_ final consonant, glottal stop or any other.
There also is no correlation between words that end in vowels versus the glottal stop or any other consonant. For example, {je} is not related to {je'} any more than it's related to {jen} or {jeD}. They're all separate words, one of which just happens to be CV and not CVC.
-- ter'eS BG
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