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

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:52 AM, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
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> deinx nxtxr wrote:
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>>> [mailto:markjreed@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
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> [snip]
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>>> The phoneme in question is /tK/, which Klingon spells {tlh} while Nahuatl spells
>>> {tl}. And a lovely phoneme it is. :)
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>> Isn't the Klingon version supposed to be aspirated as opposed to the Aztec phoneme?
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> 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 [tˡɬ], CXS [t_lK].

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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