On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:39 AM, kechpaja <kechpaja@comcast.net> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:19:50AM -0500, Michael Roney, Jr. wrote:
Speaking of syllables, there are 2,541 possible syllables in Klingon.
How did you arrive at that number? I'm getting 2625 = 21 initials X 5 vowels X (24 finals + null final).
Did you subtract the (ow, ow', uw, uw') endings?
1,814 have been used 3 of them will never be used.
Two of these are reminiscent of a common expletive referring to excrement. What's the third, though?
Qov http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/WordsWithoutMeaning
data obtained from yIH'a'na'
Where/what is that? Google deletes the {qaghwI'mey}, so I'm having tribble finding it (/ducks).
-SapIr
She's a who. (she's also a computational linguist) We were privately discussing Klingon syllables and this seemed like a good thread to share her findings.