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! !! | ! !! Labial !! Alveolar !! Lateral !! Postalveolar<br/>/ palatal !! Retroflex !! Velar !! Uvular !! Glottal | ||
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| Stops || [[Voiceless | | Stops || [[Voiceless bilabial stop|p (pʰ <tt>p_h</tt>)]] · [[Voiced bilabial stop|b]] || [[Voiceless alveolar stop|t (tʰ <tt>t_h</tt>)]] || || || [[Voiced retroflex stop|D (ɖ, <tt>d`</tt>)]] || || [[Voiceless uvular stop|q]] || [[Glottal stop|' (ʔ <tt>?</tt>)]] | ||
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| Affricates || || || || [[Voiceless postalveolar affricate|ch (tʃ <tt>t_S</tt>)]] · [[Voiced postalveolar affricate|j (dʒ <tt>d_Z</tt>)]] | | Affricates || || || [[Voiceless lateral alveolar affricate|tlh (tˡɬ <tt>t_l_K</tt>)]] || [[Voiceless postalveolar affricate|ch (tʃ <tt>t_S</tt>)]] · [[Voiced postalveolar affricate|j (dʒ <tt>d_Z</tt>)]] || || || [[Voiceless uvular affricate|Q (qχ <tt>q_X</tt>)]] | ||
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| | | Fricatives || [[Voiced labiodental fricative|v]] || || || || [[Voiceless retroflex sibilant|S (ʂ <tt>s`</tt>)]] || [[Voiceless velar fricative|H (x)]] · [[Voiced velar fricative|gh (ɣ <tt>G</tt>)]] | ||
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| | | Nasals || [[Bilabial nasal|m]] || [[Alveolar nasal|n]] || || || || [[Velar nasal|ng (ŋ <tt>N</tt>)]] | ||
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| | | Approximants || [[Labial-velar approximant|w]] || || [[Alveolar lateral approximant|l]] || [[Palatal approximant|y (j)]] | ||
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| | | Rhotic || || [[Alveolar trill|r]] | ||
|} | |} | ||
Revision as of 14:01, 7 August 2009
Klingon is a conlang created by Marc Okrand for the Star Trek movies. It is intended to be a forceful, alien-sounding language.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Postalveolar / palatal |
Retroflex | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | p (pʰ p_h) · b | t (tʰ t_h) | D (ɖ, d`) | q | ' (ʔ ?) | |||
| Affricates | tlh (tˡɬ t_l_K) | ch (tʃ t_S) · j (dʒ d_Z) | Q (qχ q_X) | |||||
| Fricatives | v | S (ʂ s`) | H (x) · gh (ɣ G) | |||||
| Nasals | m | n | ng (ŋ N) | |||||
| Approximants | w | l | y (j) | |||||
| Rhotic | r |
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