[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nIve'Da'

[SuStel]

On 10/12/2020 2:04 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 10:45 AM Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu 
> <mailto:sboozer at uchicago.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for the source.  I was perusing the qep'a' 2020 new words
>     list over the weekend and discovered another one {DItroy'} Detroit.
>
>
> Interesting example of using a glottal stop to transliterate a "t" in 
> a syllable that otherwise already ends in a consonant.

The final /t/ in /Detroit/ is not aspirated the way a Klingon /t/ always 
is. A glottal stop is actually closer in sound to the unaspirated /t./

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SuStel
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