[85201] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: KLBC: New to the List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Mon Dec 8 12:24:54 2008
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:23:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6916A89F567@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >>>There have been a couple of proper names that
> didn't conform to
> >>>this, but they have all been borrowed from
> other languages, like
> >>>{jon luq pIqarD}.
>
> Interestingly, the string {-arD-} is present in just one
> other word that I know of:
>
> Cardassia is both {qarDaS} and {qarDaSya'}. [KGT p.
> 142]
>
> Note BTW that this is another foreign proper name. This
> tells us that Klingons view the combination {qarD} as
> pronounceable, even though it doesn't appear in any
> native tlhIngan Hol words.
>
>
My personal theory is that the "r" found paired with a vowel at the end of syllables (as here, or in {'argh}), is not the same, fully-consonantal "r" that begins the word {ragh}, for example, but is actually a coloring on the preceding vowel, a feature known in English as R-controlled vowels. For consistency, I guess I'd also consider diphthongs using Vy or Vw to also be non-consonantal uses of "y" and "w" (which is know as an off-glide). This way, the syllable pattern of Klingon can be described without any exceptions, i.e.:
CV(C) where C is any Klingon consonant,
V is V, Vy, Vw or Vr (or, V(y/w/r)), and
(C) is optional.
-- ter'eS
