[168] in tlhIngan-Hol
re: About the Klingon Language
dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 16 19:18:42 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: krankor@IMA.ISC.COM (Captain Krankor)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 17:34:36 -0500
To answer Dan's question (and I apologize if this is essentially a
re-post to some of you):
The language was mostly the work of Marc Okrand, who is a linguist. He
took aspects of *many* languages for it, and tried very hard not to have
any one language be too represented. So it has everything in it from
chinese to some native american stuff. It therefore is not particularly
Arabic or Hebrew, any more than it is anything else. And it is not
strictly true that there is no to-be verb -- the pronouns perform that
function (they are definately verbs when used in that sense, since they
take verb suffixes).
--Krankor
