The Latin-script writing system we use for Klingon is a phonetic transcription. We don't actually know how to "spell" anything in any native Klingon writing system.

Alas, that is no longer true. Thanks to the intervention of certain Klingonists, Klingon has appeared in decipherable writing on Star Trek: Discovery, in the one-to-one phonemic alphabet invented by another certain Klingonist. This alphabet is directly translatable to our Latin-letter transcription. We are stuck with this most boring of writing systems being on-screen canon, at least for the Discovery Klingons, and no explanation of why the in-universe compilers of The Klingon Dictionary had such a hard time understanding it.

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