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 most Humans (as well as Klingons) write Klingon using the Roman alphabet. The case of each letter is solely determined by its pronunciation. For example q and Q have different sounds and represent different letters, thus qoS and QoS are different words with different meanings (in addition to different pronunciations).

Note though, that, what may appear like an appostrophe is actually a separate Klingon letter ['], which represents a glottal stop (see pronunciation guide below).


 * Pronunciation

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