[Tlhingan-hol] qaghwI' between consonants

[Anthony Appleyard]

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>From : levinius at gmx.de
Date : 24/10/2015 - 13:53 (GMTST)
To : tlhingan-hol at stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Subject : Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qaghwI' between consonants

Am 24.10.2015 um 08:11 schrieb Robyn Stewart:
> ...
> What you can do is what most authors do, writing "english" Klingon names
> as we know "K'mtor" or "K'Tinga", but that's no tlhIngan Hol.
> ...

I had the impression that that sort of apostrophe sometimes meant "short unaccented vowel" or "here a vowel was dropped": e.g. the alternate spellings "p'tahk" / {petaQ}.