On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:54:58AM -0500, Michael Roney, Jr. wrote:
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?
No — that makes more sense now. I guess this leads to another question, though: do we actually have reason to assume that {-oy} can be a syllable in its own right? Based on the description given in KGT, I've always assumed that it was never intended to be a valid syllable on its own, but rather would adopt the final consonant of the preceding mopheme as its onset. Do we have any canon examples of {-oy} being attached to a word that ends in a vowel? - SapIr