Is ghItlh to be treated as jatlh, with regards to quotations and reporting things others have written ?

No.

So far as I know, only jatlh and ja' have been confirmed as "verbs of saying." tlhob is used as a verb of saying in Power Klingon, but in his interview with charghwI' about this <http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-12-holqed-07-4.txt>, he says that tlhob, jang, and ghel aren't used as verbs of saying. He was asked about and failed to answer to bach (slang), chel, chup, jach, and SIv.

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