[Tlhingan-hol] the birth of a new word: qorgh

[Bellerophon, modeler]

You're right of course, but do any names rendered in canon
violate Klingon's phonological rules?
For instance, I've never seen "Spock" in Klingon. Would it be {?Spoq} or
would a vowel be needed: {?'eSpoq}, {?Supoq} or some such? I notice
{DoyIchlan} instead of {*Doychlan} or {*DoychlanD}, but also {Denmargh}
rather than {*Denmarq}. {Denmargh} strongly supports that {qIrq} is a
one-time violation of Klingon phonology.

Anyway, point taken, and if /rq/ isn't allowed, the number of possible
syllables is 5397. How many monosyllabic words are there?

I notice in the exchange that MO consults his list of unused monosyllables
mainly because he has only 30 seconds. Comparing new vocabulary to TDK,
there seems to be a greater frequency of words that can't be reduced to
monosyllables.

~eD

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:37 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Bellerophon, modeler
> <bellerophon.modeler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In practice, syllables with /r/ in
> > position III only have /gh/, /q/, or <null> in position IV (to cite the
> > latest example, {qorgh}).
>
> Do they ever end in *{-rq}? I'm aware of only one example, {qIrq}, 'ej
> nov pong 'oHba'.
>
> --
> De'vID
>



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