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`i` v. `I` and pIqaD

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 5 20:32:34 1993

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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 05 May 93 18:58:54 EST


ghItlh 'avrIn:

> (One could have a "null" component for those rare syllables
> without three sounds, like the last syllable in "jabbI'ID").

It would be more reasonable to regard the middle syllable of
"jabbI'ID" as lacking a final consonant.  Some words end in a
vowel, such as tI 'vegetation' and je 'and [for nouns]'; but no
Klingon word can begin in a vowel.  So syllabify it as
     jab - bI - 'ID

- marqem

                         Mark A. Mandel 
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                          nIj pab Hoch.
                           -- SapIr (tera' Holtej)


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