Re: Proto-Klingon?

Aidan Grey wrote:

> --- Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:
> > I thought of this a few hours ago.  Is there a
> > proto-Klingon (or Old Klingon)
> > language?
> >
>
>    there can't be a proto-Kilingon until we have
> details on another dialect, because proto-languages
> are derived from comparisons of several different
> languages. And Old Kilngon will only exist when Mark
> Okrand creates some.
Not really.  When you only have one dialect to look at,
you can do internal reconstruction based on alternations
in that form alone.  You can do this easily with English:
look at allomorphs like "divine" /dIvaIn/ ~ "divinity" /dIvInIti/
and then, based on the data, determine what the protoform
must have been for that dialect.

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