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Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Thu Jun 25 04:02:02 2009

From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <c61.4d45bcb1.377393f2@wmconnect.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:59:57 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

On 24 Jun 2009, at 15:36, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:

>>> {yejquv} and {yejHaD} would not be spelled with initial <j>.
>>
>> They would be in IPA, and that was an IPA orthography. In IPA y is  
>> [j]
>> and j is [d?] (like dzh).
>
> Okay, but the third letter in each case was also a <j>.  So one was  
> wrong in each word.

Actually I had failed to convert {j} to [dʒ] before converting {y} to  
[j] so the whole paragraph was wrong.

The file at http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/tlh/tlh-reforms.pdf  
has been corrected.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/





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