[88192] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon in other languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIE3DvGxsZXI=?=)
Tue Aug 24 02:47:31 2010
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:42:36 +0200
From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIE3DvGxsZXI=?= <esperantist@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Why does Wikipedia then display the name as
クリンゴン語(kuringon-go)? Google gives the following hits for the kana/kanji
versions:
kuringon-go -wikipedia: 15.000 hits
kurinan-go -wikipedia: 180 hits
So the Japanese word for Klingon is most likely クリンゴン語 (kuringon-go).
- André
2010/8/24 Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
> In Japanese it would be pronounced phonetically and written in katakana - a
> character set which, like kanji, I fear I cannot reproduce here.
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> The "tlh" of "tlhIngan Hol" is not pronounceable as such in Japanese.
> Instead, Japanese uses the closest syllables, in this case "ku ri na n."
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> The word for "language" is "go".
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> kurinango - Klingon language
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> Wish I could show you the kana and kanji.
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