Re: Klingon (was Re: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs (was Re: Poll))
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 18, 2008, 1:35 |
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:04 PM, deini nxtxr <deinx.nxtxr@...>wrote:
> > [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
>
> > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:43:16 -0500, deinx nxtxr wrote:
> > > > Phonologically it only has one really odd phoneme.
> >
> > Huh? What is the one odd phoneme? How can an isolated
> > phoneme be odd?
>
> By "odd" I meant "uncommon". The phoneme in question is /t_l_h/. ISTR
> reading that Okrand specialized in the North American languages found in the
> West so it's not too surprising. I know Nahuatl/Aztec has /t_l/.
The phoneme in question is /tK/, which Klingon spells {tlh} while Nahuatl
spells {tl}. And a lovely phoneme it is. :)
At some point years ago I read through the Kligon grammar pretty thoroougly,
> and this was the only part of the language I really found difficult, but my
> interest didn't carry me into actually trying to learn the language. I tend
> to look at a lot of conlangs just to satisfy my curiosity about their
> structure.
>
There are about 50 verb prefixes to learn; it's kinda daunting as a solo
project, but comes quickly if you actually speak the language much at all.
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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