15 Nov
2019
15 Nov
'19
5:30 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:59 PM SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
As for the *-lan,* as nIqolay points out, he's always transliterated *-land* as *-lan.* I expect that's to avoid piling on too many extra syllables. The final *d* just isn't all that important. But the initial *S* and *c* are equally important.
He still sometimes adds an extra syllable for other word-final consonant clusters: - {ma'rIch} (Barbara) March - {rabe'rIt} Robert (O'Reilly) - {wa'lIS} (Gwynyth) Walsh I think "-land" gets trimmed to {-lan} because /n/ and /d/ are both voiced alveolar consonants, so they're more similar. (The fact that Klingon doesn't have a /d/ sound might help here too.)