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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 12 23:01:19 1993
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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 12 May 93 17:30:20 EST
nughom Holtej latlh! Dochvam tlhob Nick Nicholas:
> "uvular affricate" "Q"'e''a'? "apicoprepalatal" "D"'e''a'? loQ HolchuS
Klingon has a weird and wonderfully worfed -- I mean WARPED! -- phoneme set:
labial/ alveolar lateral alveo- velar glottal
labiodental retroflex palatal uvular
vl stop/affr p t tlh ch q '
vd stop/affr b D j
vl fricative S H Q
vd fricative v gh
nasal m n ng
glide w y
liquid r l
The 5-vowel triangle as such is not unusual, except that the front vowels are
all lax and the rounded vowels are all tense, and that IS weird.
I thank ACW, whose name I forget, who first alerted me to tlhIngan Hol with a
review of TKD on the LINGUIST list, in which he gave many of the points that I
have summarized in this table. All this data is extracted from TKD, where
Okrand puts it in layman's language but with enough detail for a phonologist
to lay it out as above.
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
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