[Tlhingan-hol] Phonology of Klingon

[Will Martin]

… and just to add to Qov’s excellent explanation, {y} is not a vowel in Klingon phonology. It’s a consonant. In English, it gets used as both, but in Klingon, it is used exclusively as a consonant.

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> On Oct 8, 2015, at 12:40 AM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
> 
> The suffix -oy is the only possible (and not confirmed) exception to the rule that syllables always begin with a consonant. There are many syllables that end in a vowel, all the verb prefixes, for example, and quite a few words that end in vowels, too.  For example Do (velocity) HaSta (viewing screen) and tI (vegetation).
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> nuqneH
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> I was reading this link :http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Phonology <http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Phonology>
> And it says that a valid syllable is the combination CV (consonant-vowel). Does this mean that i can have this combination at the end of a word,without the glottal stop following it ? I thought that whenever there is a vowel at the end of a word the glottal stop must always follow it (as part of the same word), with the "oy" as the only exception to this rule.
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