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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/19/2020 1:30 AM, De'vID wrote:<br>
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<div>Someone (Visirius) posted this about ablaut reduplication on
the Klingon Discord recently and it seems relevant to {vIqraq}:</div>
<div><a href="https://www.rd.com/culture/ablaut-reduplication/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.rd.com/culture/ablaut-reduplication/</a><br>
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<div>Does Klingon also follow this pattern? That is, are there
words that sound like *{vaqrIq} instead? The only one that comes
to mind is {raS'IS} (which is not *{rIS'aS}).</div>
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<p>I don't know about this particular rule, but I do know that
Okrand has given such things thought. We have the words <b>Dung</b><i>
area above</i> and <b>bIng</b><i> area below,</i> which sound
exactly backwards to an English-speaker's ear (which tends to have
front-vowels for <i>up</i> and back-vowels for <i>down</i>). I
believe Okrand confirmed — though I cannot cite a source; it may
have been a conversation at a qep'a' — that he did this
intentionally.</p>
<p>It's also possible that Okrand doesn't know about ablaut
reduplication and lets his English bias bleed into Klingon.<br>
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