[Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries

[Philip Newton]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:11, Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer at web.de> wrote:
> I do speak turkish a little, and the turk name for the country sounds more
> like *turqIye'*.

Or {tIrqIye'}?

I suppose they're both equally distant: one is rounded but not front,
the other is front but not rounded.

> What I like a lot is the word for china. I had to look it up, and there you
> see what you can learn from learning Klingon :-) jungwoq is the chinese name
> for china and means roughly "middle kingdom".

I liked it, too.

I also wonder whether the name was taken from Cantonese, since there's
no final consonant in Mandarin.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>