[90342] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Oct 31 11:15:49 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:15:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CA+cwSm82V7oCaMW+dtrZ+yN+3TmVr3oQ1yUXzt8gc-50MzSzkA@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
>> Turkey - turIqya'
I bet Okrand was just trying to render the consonant cluster /rk/ in Turk - {turIq} + {-ya'} - instead of dealing with the Turkish umlauted u.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> -----Original Message-----
Lieven:
>> I do speak turkish a little, and the turk name for the country
>> sounds more like *turqIye'*.
Philip:
> Or {tIrqIye'}?
> I suppose they're both equally distant: one is rounded but not front,
> the other is front but not rounded.
>
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