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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/9/2020 12:20 PM, Will Martin
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So, in English, we would instead tend to say, “I am the person who
said that Klingon is verb-centric,” using the word “who” as a
relative pronoun, instead of as a question word, though in other
contexts, this is a question word.</blockquote>
<p>In English, the part of speech of the word <i>who</i> is <i>pronoun.</i>
You might use it relatively in clauses to stand in for a stated or
implied antecedent <i>(I know who said that)</i>, or you might
use it to stand in for an answer <i>(Who said that?)</i>, but it
always works as a pronoun.</p>
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<div class="">In Klingon, we might say {tlhIngan Hol jatlhlu’DI’,
wot potlh law’ Hoch potlh puS. jatlhboghpu’ nuv wa'DIch jIH.}
That would use the Relative Clause to explain that the first
person who said it was me.</div>
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<p>Because Klingon has a pair of pronouns that specifically stand in
only for antecedent sentences, we can be pretty sure that the
question words <b>nuq</b> and <b>'Iv,</b> which stand in for
answers (and hence are also pronouns) can't stand in for
antecedents. (And Okrand has said they can't.) Thus, they cannot
create relative clauses. I think <b>nuqDaq</b> can also be
considered a pronoun.<br>
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<p><b>tlhIngan Hol lughatlh wot 'e' vIjatlh jIH'e'</b><i> It was I
who said that verbs dominate the Klingon language.</i></p>
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