It's been over 40 years since Star Trek III: The Search for Spock was released. This was the first time people got to hear Marc Okrand's (Okrandian) Klingon.
There were two earlier sources - the Klingon spoken in 1979 in Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Mark Lenard, and the Pocket Books novel "The Final Reflection" by the late John M Ford, which gave us klingonaase terms such as klin zha, komerex zha and the mortal insult tokhe' straav willing slave.
But this was the first time we heard the Klingon we are familiar with: the Klingon of Qapla' and jol yIchu' and So'wI' yIchu'Ha' and qagh.
From this, it took little over a year for The Klingon Dictionary to come out - and that changed everything.
The Klingon Dictionary teaches you the basics. I recommend you get yourself a copy. Get them from World of Books, or from Simon & Schuster direct. Give them your money, not that damnable Quark wannabee running Amazon.
Here is where you can start - where this blog began.
A quick note, and a bit of a pep talk.
The letters of the Klingon alphabet.
(Audio) How each letter is pronounced.
(Audio) The sounds of Klingon.
(image) The pIqaD Klingon script.
Fun Fact: The Klingon language term for Klingon language is tlhIngan Hol.
In this blog, you have all the resources you'll need to learn about Klingon words, such as its nouns, verbs, adverbials, numbers, conjunctions, exclamations, and so on.
It's all juicy stuff, but there is ten years' worth of material to go through, so as I keep digging through the backdated articles, I will be putting them up here.
Qapla'!
Lessons
Here is a master post of links to the 40 tlhIngan Hol Lessons I posted near the start of this blog.
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-lu' is the Type 5 verb suffix listed as indefinite subject in The Klingon Dictionary.
-lu'Â indefinite subject
This suffix is used to indicate that the subject is unknown, indefinite, and/or general. Since the subject is always the same (that is, it is always unstated), the pronominal prefixes (section 4.1.1) are used in a different way. Those prefixes which normally indicate first- or second-person subject and third-person singular object (vI-, Da-, wI-, bo-) are used to indicate first- or second-person object. Thus, vI-, which normally means I do something to him/her, when in a verb with -lu' means someone/something does something to me. Similarly, the prefix lu-, which normally means they do something to him/her, becomes someone/something does something to them.
Verbs with -lu' are often translated into the English passive voice.
Daqawlu'Â you are remembered
wIleghlu'Â we are seen
Soplu'Â it is eaten
This week, we will be looking at this verb suffix in conjunction with the third person null verb prefix. The null prefix and -lu' together can be translated as it is ... as seen above.
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This is not a loop. Gowron has been staring like that since before his inauguration, like somebody who accidentally saw his parents trying to make a little sister.
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You can also see the null prefix in the following sentences.
puj HI''a' The tyrant is weak
mIgh HI''a' The tyrant is evil
batlh Hutlh HI''a' The tyrant lacks honour
DavHam 'ang HI''a' The tyrant displays false honour
chIvo' chIw HI''a' The tyrant epitomises utter dishonour
