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Re: Klingon (was Re: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs (was Re: Poll))

From:<deinx nxtxr> <deinx.nxtxr@...>
Date:Monday, December 22, 2008, 3:27
> [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?