Re: new Klingon spelling

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 03:06  AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Steg> I'm actually worse than that :-P  My English pronunciation is
> ['IzriL=]
> Hm.  What's the capital "L"?
Velar or velarized /l/.

> Steg> (which i thought was common, but i've been finding out lately is
> Steg> actually pretty idiosyncratic), even though i know quite well
> that they
> Steg> call themselves [jisRa'el].
> Hm.  Now I can't remember - is it [ji] or [je]?  But it's definitely
> [S] instead of [s].
> -Mark
It's [ji].  And it isn't [S], it's just written with the |sh| letter.
The Hebrew letter that resembles "W" represents two different phonemes
- /S/ and /s/ (</K/).  In vowel-pointed texts, /S/ (shin) is marked
with a dot on its upper-right and /s/ (sin) with a dot on its
upper-left.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "aru."