[88198] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon in other languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Tue Aug 24 11:08:08 2010
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:54:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=fyiOp0LCk56Ttcb4LuHQcEz+NWPmuNyCDs8AB@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Also, since the 'u' sound very frequently drops out in spoken Japanese, this is probably pronounced "kringon-go".
-- ter'eS
--- On Tue, 8/24/10, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since Klingons were around long
> before tlhIngan Hol, the Japanese word
> ("kuringon-go") is almost certainly from the English
> "Klingon" rather than
> Klingon "tlhIngan".
> lay'tel SIvten
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > 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."
> >
> > The word for "language" is "go".
> >
> > kurinango - Klingon language
> >
> > Wish I could show you the kana and kanji.
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