Ah, interesting; I've always assumed that the word {Sar} meant "variety" in the sense of "diversity", rather than "variant". Now I'll have to rethink my use of the phrase {belmoH Sar}. Perhaps {belmoH SartaHghach.} would be preferable? //loghaD ________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 22:20 To: tlhIngan-Hol Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] info from Maltz: pronunciation On 17 February 2018 at 07:35, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com<mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>> wrote: --- begin quote --- TKD glosses {QIch} as "speech (vocal sounds)." The notation "(vocal sounds)" is intended to denote that "speech" here means the phenomenon of speech as opposed to an address or oration - that's {SoQ}. So {QIch} doesn't refer to individual speech sounds or speech sounds collectively. An individual speech sound is {QIch wab} and speech sounds collectively are {QIch wabmey}. "Pronunciation" could be {QIch wab Ho'DoS}, more literally (but awkwardly) "speech-sound manner, speech-sound technique." --- end quote --- A bit more on languages: --- begin quote --- An "accent" might be {QIch wab Ho'DoS Sar} "pronunciation variety." A "regional accent" would then be {Sep QIch wab Ho'DoS} or {Sep QIch wab Sar} or {Sep QIch wab Ho'DoS Sar}. ("Dialect," by the way, would be {Hol Sar}; "regional dialect" is {Sep Hol Sar}.) -- end quote --- -- De'vID