Be careful when writing Klingon to use the correct capitalization ( i.e., the capitalization appropriate for the sound do not capitalize the first letter of your sentences in Klingon), since otherwise it's hard for people used to the language to read it. Mostly, capital letters are used to help remind you that a letter sounds different in Klingon than it does in English. You'll also find that the orthography of Klingon uses capital and lowercase letters a little differently from the way you're used to. So a Klingon ng is not an n followed by g (Klingon has no g anyway!) it's a simple sound on its own. You should think of these combinations as single letters, since they represent single, simple sounds in Klingon. Note that some of the sounds of Klingon are represented by more than one letter of English. You can also find out about some everyday phrases in Klingon. Here's a description of the sounds of Klingon, and the way they're written in the standard Okrand writing-system (see another page for a discussion of another writing system).

a retroflex D and a dental t, but no retroflex T or dental d). Paramount wanted the language to be gutteral and harsh, and Okrand wanted it to be unusual, so he selected sounds that combined in ways not typically found in other languages (e.g. The sounds of Klingon individually occur in existing Terran languages, but no single language uses the entire collection. Become a member of the Klingon Language Institute.Level IV: Hol patlh pab pIn, 'Grammarian'.Level III: Hol patlh po'wI', 'Advanced'.

Level II: Hol patlh ghojwI', 'Intermediate'.

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