Re: Phonomological Analysis of Vulcan Utterances
Rob Zook 
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:49:50 -0600

At 09:40 AM 10/29/97 -0800, you wrote:
>> kya                           kaia?
>> kyani                         kaiani?
>> Kya'shin                      kaia'cin?
>kya = kja

A 'j' as in judge? or as the zh sound in azure?

kja or kdja?
kjani or kdjani?
kja'cin or kdja'cin?

>> k'wawzhe                      k'wawje?
>> lahso                         laso?
>> lasha                         laca?
>it is an 'sh' sound. as in shoot

Oh, yes, I realize that. I was using Saul's alternative orthography
in which one represents the 'sh' as a 'c', the 'zh' as a 'j',
the 'ch' sound as a 'tc' (tsh), and a the english j sound as 'dj'.

Which reminds me I forgot a couple:

formaji                         formadji? or formaji?
c'thia                          ts'thia?

What to you think of turning all 'rr' into a reflexive r ('rh')?
Also, acknowledging that 'rh' in the dictionary also represents
the reflexive r?

Finally, I looked over the list again and I take one back:

Wh'ltri                       wh'ltri

Rob Z.

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