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Vulcan Language Guide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 7 16:21:24 1992
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 13:17:17 GMT-0900
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Here's something I received.
Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD, Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, E/ire
Phone: +353-1-706-2745 Fax: +353-1-283-7778
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This is an a booklet on how the vulcan language works. It can be
purchased from most hobby/comic shops across America for around
$5.00. Lessons 9 -20 exist but were not typed in. The following
booklet has been reproduced with out promission:
VULCAN
LANGUAGE
GUIDE
Starfleet Academy
Training
Manual
Alien Language Department - Course NO. LV-1
(c) 1977 APRIL PUBLICATIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
This STARFLEET ACADEMY TRAINING MANUAL is a work of fiction
depicting
the type of training literature that may some day be utilized at the
space
academies of our furture.
Introduction
Valcan is one of the chieef languages of our 23century. Since the
advent of star travle, and the signing of treaties amoung the races
of our galaxy, Vulacn has become a major power and its people can be
found on many planets.
The planet of Vulcan, while mataining an advanced technology, is
still rich in old traditions. The new and old is reflected in the
Vulcan language.
There are more than one hundred dialects of the Vulcan language.
The dialect Tought in this Guide is the principal dialect, or first
language (anakana), of the planet Vulcan, as proclaimed by the
Vulcan Academy of Sciences.
Below is a chart illistrating the five main dialects of the
Vaucan language and the percentage of the population who speek them.
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X X X X
X DIALECT X ENGLISH TRANSLATION X PERCENTAGE X
X X X X
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X X X X
X Anakana X First Language X 75% X
X Nikana X Second Language X 10% X
X Noyokana X Central Language X 5% X
X Senura-kana X Ceremonial Language X 5% X
X Taiya-kana X Old Language X 3% X
X Other Dialects X X 2% X
X X X X
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LESSON 1: ORTHOGRAPHY
The Vulcan language does not have an alphabet such as many Earth
languages do. Instead, Vulcan words are formed by a series of sounds,
each represented by a symbol. The chart below lists all of the sounds
and symbols of the Vulcan language.
(No "Earth" computer text can mach these, Sorry)
LESSON 2: PRONUNCIATION
The Vulcan vowels are pronounced as follwos:
a as in park ai as i in ice
i as in police au as ow in now
u as the duble oo in soon ei as a in face
e as the sound of a in same oi as oy in boy
o as in lod
The vowel u, when preceded by a consonant, is silent in a good many
Vulcan words. Enample: ponu faru (mating time) is pronounced as pon
far.
The Vulcan consonants are, in most cases, pronounced as they are in
English with the exception of x which is pronounced as the z in
english.
LESSON 3: ACCENTUATION
In words with two syllables, the stress generally falls on the first
syllable or vouwel. In words with three or more syllables, the stress
usually falls on the second syllables or vouwel.
LESSON 4: SENTENCE STRUCTURE
In a Vulcan sentence or clause, the verv is placed at the end , and
its grammatical order is subject+object+verb, so that instead of
saying:
I bought a new coat.
the Vulcan say:
I a new coat bought.
LESSON 5: ARTICALS - SINGULAR AND PLURAL
There is no definite or indefinite article in Vulcan. and only in a
few cases is the plural form used, so that wonku (book) may mean the
book.a book.books or the books.
LESSON 6: NOMINATIVE AND ACCUSATIVE
In most Earth languages no distinction exists between words used in
the nominative and in the accusative. In Vulcan the distinction
between those two cases exist, and in the nominative is indicated by
the postposition ra while in the accusative is indicated by the
postposition ro.
Susposing that English words were Vulcan, let us consider the
following sentence in which the Vulcan particles indicating the
nominative and accusative are placed in the position that they should
have in the Vulcan translation:
English construction - Horses eat grass.
Vulcan construction - Horses ra grass ro eat.
LESSON 7: INTERROGATIVE
The interrogative is indicated by ta at the end of a sentence or
clause, which corresponds to a question mark in English.
LESSON 8: VERBS
In Vulcan there is only one expression for all three persons,
singular or
plural, of each tense. All Vulcan verbs end with the prefix sha which
is
conjugated as follows:
sha - present positive shanai - present negitive
shi - past positive shinai - past negitive
sho - future positive shonai - future negitive
Example:
itisha - is, are, am
itishanai - is not
itishi - was
itishinai - was not
itisho - will be
itishonai - will not be
LESSON 9: GREETINGS
LESSON 10: MOST COMMON EXPRESSIONS
LESSON 11: MOST COMMON EXPRESSIONS
LESSON 12: MOST COMMON EXPRESSIONS
LESSON 13: MOST COMMON EXPRESSIONS
LESSON 14: LANGUAGE
LESSON 15: EXCLAMATORY EXPRESSIONS
LESSON 16: NUMBERS
LESSON 17: USING NUMBERS
LESSON 18: TRAVEL
LESSON 19: HONORIFICS
LESSON 20: WRITING VULCAN
DICTIONARY OF VULCAN WORDS
elow lists all of the sounds
and symbols of the Vulcan language.
(No "Earth" computer text can mach these, Sorry)
