If you’ve watched Star Trek (and even if you haven’t), you are probably already familiar with Klingons - warlike, humanoid aliens with ridged foreheads. Although the Klingon species is fictional, their language - tlhIngan Hol - is very real, and has a small but vibrant speaker community that hangs out on various internet fora, as well as organizing meetups in the USA and Germany.
Linguistically, Klingon draws from several natural language sources, and also incorporates numerous puns in its vocabulary (i.e. QeD “science”, from “QED”; ’Iw “blood”; ’uH “to be hungover”). Marc Okrand, the creator of Klingon, intentionally designed the phonology and syntax to be as alien (to anglophones) as possible, while remaining usable by humans. Thus, the default word order is OVS, and there are numerous suffixes indicating modality (-laH “can”), qualification (-qoq “so-called”), and other categories traditionally expressed analytically in European languages.
Originally from Germany, André Müller is a PhD student of linguistics at the University of Zurich, where he explores languages of Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar. He is also an expert on writing systems of the world, and a Klingon teacher in Switzerland.
This video was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering Online 2020 (www.polyglotga....
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