On 3/28/2015 9:13 AM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv wrote: > I haven't seen mention that {jIyaj} is somewhat of a special case > because Klingon has, like Japanese, "pure vowels" It really doesn't. As described in THE KLINGON DICTIONARY, {o} sounds the same as {ow}, or /oʊ/, a diphthong. -- SuStel http://www.trimboli.name/