[tlhIngan Hol] using whistles

[Steven Boozer]

Thanks for sharing the details and for creating the wiki page (which everyone should read).  Just for the sake of obsessive completeness, here's a note from qep'a' 2018:

(qep'a' 2018):  ... if there’s an object, it’s the thing (song? birdcall?) being whistled

... and some vocabulary:

SuS 		blow (into wind instrument) to produce sound (v)
chu'  		play (a musical instrument) (v)
QoQ jan 	musical instrument (n)
ngujlep 		mouthpiece (of a wind instrument) (n)
qung  		hole in a musical instrument (n)

Hmm... can Klingon whistles have mouthpieces and fingering holes?

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Voragh

------------------------------Original Message------------------------------
From: Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol

At qepHom 2023, we learned some words for whistles. Okrand just gave me some additions on their usage. Most of it basically was clear, but it's good to have a definite response:

 -  These ship- or factory-type whistles cannot be "played" by a person.
They're powered by some sort of energy (steam, electricity, whatever).

 -  You can use {SuS} if you're playing a {mu'vIb}, and {'uq} is if there's no instrument/implement involved (except maybe your fingers).

 -  The verb to activate a wall-mounted device is {chu'} (not {SuS}).

This is added to the Klingon Language wiki:
https://klingon.wiki/En/Whistle 

The full message, include my questions, can be found here:
https://qephom.de/e/message_from_maltz_231215_whistles.html

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Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"