> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> >> Isn't the Klingon version supposed to be aspirated as
> opposed to the Aztec phoneme?
> >
> > Not according the Klingon Language Institute website (www.kli.org/).
>
> Indeed not; the release on the t is lateral, so I'm not sure
> how to aspirate that if I wanted to. The IPA for {tlh} on
>
http://www.kli.org/tlh/sounds.html, which comes straight from Dr.
> Okrand, is [t??], CXS [t_lK].
The human speech apparatus may not be able to aspirate but maybe a Klingon
can do it?