[Tlhingan-hol] [KLBC] Tlinget influence?

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if the Tlinget language was an influence on the design of tlhIngan Hol?
>
> The "Tl" in Tlinget is indistinguishable to my ear the from "tlh" used in Klingon.
>
> Some words in the language have a striking similarity in terms of the sound or feel of the words, and it just really struck me while a dear friend was putting me onto some people speaking Tlinket after I'd been going on about Klingon and such.

Dr. Okrand's dissertation was on Mutsun.

Dick Grune has written a paper comparing Mutsun and Klingon which you
can read here:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/Summaries/Languages/MutsunKlingonComparison.pdf

Any similarity you see between Klingon and Tlinget is probably a
coincidence, though it possibly stems from a similarity between
Tlinget and Mutsun. (I don't know enough about either to comment about
that.)

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