[Tlhingan-hol] glottal stop

[Karen Alessio]

Also many other languages dont add a glottal stop in front of word-initial
vowels. As stated already certain varieties of English have this tendency.
So it seems odd to me that the qaghwI' is relegated to
less-than-true-consonant status by being treated differently, both in pIqad
grapheme size and in name.
On Oct 19, 2015 12:57 AM, "Anthony Appleyard" <a.appleyard at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> "every syllable begins with a consonant, INCLUDING the qaghwI'": This is
> not true for British English. I remember on the Red Sea having to teach a
> liveaboard-boat-ful of English-speaking people to say the Arabic word
> {'afwan} (the reply to "thankyou") complete with glottal stop; as usual my
> starting point was Cockney English "bu'er" for "butter" (familiar to the
> public from entertainment radio programs), as is common in books teach
> Semitic languages to English-speakers.
>
> ----Original message----
> From : sustel at trimboli.name
> Date : 19/10/2015 - 00:59 (GMTST)
> To : tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> Subject : Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: veSDuj
>
> On 10/18/2015 10:44 AM, Robyn Stewart wrote:
> > The qaghwI' is more of a cessation of sound than a sound.
>
> Not really. It's as much a stop as any other stop, just farther back in
> the throat.
>
> > Because every (otherwise-)initial vowel is automatically preceded by
> > one,
>
> Well, it's really that every syllable begins with a consonant, INCLUDING
> the qaghwI'. This is not a distinguishing feature.
>
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