<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --></style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">ghItlhpu' Daniel, jatlh:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">> but I wasn’t aware that it was actually written in an archaic language.<br>
</p>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; background-color:#FFFFFF; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<div><br>
</div>
<div>jang loghaD, jatlh:<br>
</div>
<div>> It's really only the first three cantos that are written in no' Hol, but that's still enough to glean</div>
<div>> quite a bit of the shifts which have occurred. 'ISqu' posted a very good summary back when</div>
<div>> the book was first published:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The excellent summary that 'ISqu' posted was focused upon the phonology, and was a follow-up to my summary of no' Hol grammatical features, which Daniel may also find useful or interesting in this context.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><a href="http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2011/November/msg00492.html" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk994732" previewremoved="true">http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2011/November/msg00492.html</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regarding the {t}/{'} issue, it may or may not be relevant to note also that the term {Heghbat} "ritual suicide" (KGT) seems to have a variant {Heghba'}, from Ann Crispin's novel "Sarek" whose Klingon material was also provided by Marc Okrand.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>QeS 'utlh<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>