[85838] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Tue Jun 23 23:12:00 2009
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From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:09:58 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
> Hm. I would say that Standard Klingon has a phoneme /b/ which is
> realized as [b] or [mb], but that in some dialects the phoneme /b/ has
> fallen together with /m/.
TKD says the speakers of the variant dialect need to remember how to
spell the different words that sound the same. I consider that to be
evidence that the phonemes remain distinct even in those dialects
where they are voiced alike.
-- ghunchu'wI'
