Help:A Guide to Klingon

Introduction
The Klingon language was developed by Marc Okrand for several Star Trek movies. "The Klingon Dictionary" (TKD) by Okrand provides a complete grammar, plus English-Klingon and Klingon-English translations. Klingon words in this dictionary are canonical. The TKD was published by Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 1985, with a second edition with new addendum 1992, ISBN 0-671-74559-X.

The rest of this guide provides an overview of Klingon grammar.

Writing Klingon
There is a Klingon alphabet, called pIqaD. However it is almost impossible to write the letters correctly using a pen, so most Humans (as well as Klingons) write Klingon using the Roman alphabet.

The Pronunciation Guide lists the letters used when writing Klingon.


 * Pronunciation
 * Punctuation

Words
In Klingon there are three parts of speech: verbs (wotmey), nouns (DIpmey) and everything else (chuvmey).

Most words are compound, formed from a root plus affixes - prefixes and suffixes.


 * Verbs
 * Nouns
 * Others

Grammar

 * Sentences
 * Questions
 * Time