[177] in tlhIngan-Hol
About the Klingon Language's Origins
dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 16 19:19:06 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: "Allan C. Wechsler" <ACW@yukon.scrc.symbolics.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 12:06-0500
In-Reply-To: <9201311516.AA27132@ah.sei.cmu.edu>
I have spotted no obvious cognates to Arabic and Hebrew. The
characteristics (presence of q and H, absence of an explicit existential
copula) that dberry@SEI.CMU.EDU mentions are shared by many unrelated
tera'ngan languages as well. (Slavic languages have no "is"; many
American Indian languages have q and H; in fact H is more common Terran
languages than h!)
