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Re: History of the Klingon language (rgh, w', y')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 23 08:02:07 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: 23 Aug 93 11:19:36 GMT
j.guy@trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) wrote on Mon, 23 Aug 1993 11:28:25 +1000 (EST)
(Subject: History of the Klingon language):-
> ... "why only rgh, w' and y' as final CC?" ...
Allan C.Wechsler (HolQeD vol1 #1 pp6,9,10) thinks that `rgh` < an old single
consonant *`G` (a voiced version of `Q`, like `gh` but with the back of the
tongue placed as for `q` and `Q`). (At the start of a syllable *`G` > `gh`.)
