KLINGON TRANSLATOR SERIES

KLINGON TRANSLATOR SERIES

The language is first mentioned in the original Star Trek series episode ' The Trouble with Tribbles' (1967), but is not heard until Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979). Because its vocabulary is heavily centered on Star Trek-Klingon concepts such as spacecraft or warfare, it can sometimes be cumbersome for everyday use. The opera ʼuʼ is entirely in Klingon.Ī small number of people are capable of conversing in Klingon. The play A Klingon Christmas Carol is the first production that is primarily in Klingon (only the narrator speaks English). Ford's 1984 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford. Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese (most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode ' The Trouble with Tribbles', where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as 'Klingonee' / ˈ k l ɪ ŋ ɡ ɒ n i/), but among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Klingon was subsequently developed by Okrand into a full-fledged language. In all previous appearances, Klingons spoke in English, even to each other. That film marked the first time the language had been heard. The language's basic sound, along with a few words, was devised by actor James Doohan (' Scotty') and producer Jon Povill for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The Klingon language (Klingon: tlhIngan Hol, pIqaD:  , pronounced ) is the constructed language spoken by a fictional alien race called the Klingons, in the Star Trek universe.ĭescribed in the 1985 book The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand and deliberately designed to sound 'alien', it has a number of typologically uncommon features. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols.

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