[Tlhingan-hol] [Phonetics] -ew', -Iw', -Iy'

[lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com]

Thanks. You are right. In fact, {y} doesn't sound like {I}. The latter is like the American short "i", as in "hit" while the former is like the second half of the sound Americans make when pronouncing the letter "e", a sound that doesn't exist as a vowel in Klingon. I just wasn't thinking.

This is why {Iy} sounds like the impure (normal) American "E" and {ey} sounds like the impure (normal) American "A". 

lojmIt tI’wI’ nuv ‘utlh
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> On Feb 10, 2015, at 10:27 PM, David Holt <kenjutsuka at live.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>  
> > lojmIt tI’wI’ nuv ‘utlh jatlh,
> > Effectively, {w} and {y} are {u} and {I} used as consonants, creating the only shift from one
> > vowel sound to another in Klingon without a consonant between them. Since Klingon lacks
> > the Japanese “long” vowel idea, you can’t have {uw} or {Iy}. I’m not sure why {ow} is not
> > allowed, unless Okrand is making fun of the impure long “o” sound that English speakers
> > tend to use.
> Actually {y} used in diphthongs represents /i/ doesn't it?  Thus {Iy} is allowed, as attested by the words, {lIy}, {mIy}, {wIy}, and {SonchIy}.
>  
> janSIy
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