Re: Quirks of the Lexicon
Adam Ophir Shapira 
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:56:41 +0100

At 3:07 PM -0500 10/23/97, Rob Zook wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have been roaming thru the corpus and texturing the dictionary to
>make it easier to read into a program. I have found a couple of
>interesting things. In the dictionary, it states:
>
>"H occures only in ancient (Old) Vulcan., cf. ah'Hrak. It may be
>described as velar h with strong and emphatic friction, voiced
>similar to Arabic 'rain'."
>
>In the lexicon it states:
>"h - as in Eng. hut"
>
>So which is correct? Or, do we have two phonomes here, one designated
>by a capital H and one by a little h?
>
>Also, the lexicon does not list a phonome of "kh" yet that letter
>combination occurs frequently in the Vulcan words from the TOS books.
>Could this perhaps be an alternative spelling for the phonome /q/?
>
>Rob Z.

When I have time, I may post the Sirian lexicon. It's
transliteration system is almost 100% phoenetical ...
far more so than many Earth languages that *brag* about
phonetical consistency in splelling. This is so strict
that the sound that in English is spelled with an 'x' is
in Sirian spelled with 'ks'.