The Languages of the Stars: Constructed Languages in Fact, and Science Fiction

The Languages of the Stars:

Constructed Languages in Fact, and Science Fiction

This November and December, I'll be teaching a six week class on

Constructed languages at Saint Anthony Park Elementary School.

Here is the outline, and as I prepare and teach, the class materials themselves.

Thanks to Qov, the current Beginner's Grammarian on the tlhIngan Hol mailing list, for this excellent vocabulary!

ghaj	Verb have, possess	ghoj	Verb learn	ghojmoH	Verb teach, instruct
yaj	Verb understand	legh	Verb see	neH	Verb want
jatlh	Verb say, speak	Qong	Verb sleep
ghung	Verb be hungry	laD	Verb read	QaH	Verb help, aid
Suv	Verb fight	jaH	Verb go	Sov	Verb know
tu'	Verb discover, find, observe, notice	ghojmoHtaH	Verb teaching

Hol	Noun language	Sov	Noun knowledge	Soj	Noun food
batlh	Noun honor	pa'	Noun room, enclosed area	QaH	Noun help
puchpa'	Noun washroom	tlhIngan	Noun Klingon	nuv	Noun person
ghot	Noun person	Ha'DIbaH	Noun dog/cur/inferior person, meat, animal	paq	Noun book
Doch	Noun thing	Qe'	Noun restaurant	jIH	Pronoun I/me

batlh	Adverb with honor	rut	Adverb sometimes	neH	Adverb only, merely, just
DaH	Adverb now	pIj	Adverb often	not	Adverb never
notlh	Verb be obsolete	naDev	Noun here, hereabouts	pa'	Adverb there, over there, thereabouts
nuqDaq	Question Word where?	'Iv	Question Word who?	qatlh	Noun why
nuq	Question Word what?	nuqDaq	Question Word where?	ghorgh	Question Word when?
maj	Exclamation good	majQa'	Exclamation well done, very good	HIja'	Exclamation yes, true
HISlaH	Exclamation yes, true	ghobe'	Exclamation no

EXTRA PIECES

-Daq	at/in
-meH	for/in order to
jI-	I do (no object)
vI-	I do to something (with an object) [object vI-verb]
wI-	We do to something (with an object) [object vI-verb]
-wIj	possesive; a thing that is mine
-Daj	possesive; a thing that is hers/his
'oH	it is
ghaH	he/she is
-taH	-ing
-vIS	"as soon as"
-nIS	"need to"
-choH	change
-be'	not do

Using just those, you could participate in this conversation at the qep'a' (the great annual gathering of students of Klingon.

A: nuqDaq ghaH Qov'e'?
B: nuq 'oH Qov'e'?
A: nuv ghaH Qov'e'.  ghotpu' ghojmoHtaH.
B: DaH jIyaj.
A: maj. nuqDaq ghaH?
C: jISovbe' jIH. rut pa'DajDaq tu'lu'.
A: qatlh pa'Daq jaH?
C: QongmeH pa'Daq jaH.
A: paqwIj ghaj Qov.  paqwIj vIneH.
B: tlhIngan paq 'oH'a'?
A: HIja'.  paqwIj laD neHmo' Qov DaH paqwIj ghaj ghaH.
B: jIghung.  Soj vIneH.  QongtaHvIS Qov Ha'DIbaH wIghajnISchoH.  Ha'DIbaH
    larghDI' Qov Qongbe'choH.
A: largh vIyajbe'
B: That's because it's not on the wordlist.  Look it up!

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