Re: New Language: Borg

At 10:09 PM 9/24/98 -0400, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Sally Caves wrote:
>> Terry, I was going to say Klingon...but with great reservation as I've
>> mislaid, it seems, my dictionary, and can only remember a few features of
>> that language (its monosyllabism, its postpositions, I THNK its VSO
>> structure... I was unsure about the vowel gradations).
>
>tlingan Hol (Klingon) has an OVS word-order, the exact opposite of
>English.  The verbs are built on a basic form, which is a complete
>syllable, to which can be added prefixes indicating subject and object,
>and suffixes indicating other qualities.  But, yeah, Klingon has almost
>no polysyllabic *roots*.
>
That's not completely true.  There are many words that are not
monosyllables and also not compounds of monosyllables, such as
/QoghIj/ 'brain', /jInaq/ 'amulet'.  Whether these are loan-words,
worn-down remnants of original CVC-CVC compounds or original roots
we can't say at our present stage of knowledge.

-- Terry

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