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'anDo'ra'

'anDo'ra' Andorra

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Resources

Watch this blog on Sunday. I'm going to post a list of the basic resources you'll need to get a firm foundation of Klingon.

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'aljayIr

'aljayIr Algeria

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SIchIyparIy

SIchIyparIy Albania

Note: The Klingon is pronounced SHEE - chee - PAR - yee.

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'avghanIStan

'avghanIStan Afghanistan

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Terran Country Names

Maltz has been a busy traveller. Apparently, he has spent a lot of time wandering the Earth, and he has translated a lot of names for Terran countries, cities, and so on.

You can see them all here:-

We'll start with the first country names tomorrow, in order by country.

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Rivers on Earth

The Klingons, apparently, have only heard of four known rivers.

'a'leghen'I' bIQtIq Allegheny (river, Mountains; US) 'eyawaDIy bIQtIq Irrawaddy (river in Burma/Myanmar) ra'yIn bIQtIq Rhein (river on German-French border) Sen bIQtIq Seine (river in Paris, France)

I'm sure there may be other rivers lurking somewhere on the Earth, but I guess Maltz is not a fan of fast-moving water.

Nobody tell him about the Amazon and the Nile, then.

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tera'ngan

tera'ngan Earthling, Earther, Earth person (n)

Probably the most dangerous creatures that ever evolved. The dumbest of the species are worse than their smartest, and the ones in the middle compound the disaster by voting for the dumbest to be their leaders.

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tera' yuweymey

Soch yuweymey ghaj tera'.

'avrI'qa' Africa 'antartIq Antarctica 'aSya' Asia 'aSralya' Australia 'ewrop Europe 'amerI'qa' 'ev chan 'ev North America 'amerI'qa' tIng chan tIng South America

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tera' yuQQeD qaDHom

tera' yuwey 'ar Dangu'laH? How many Earth continents can you identify?

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tera'

Earth is the human homeworld and an important member of the United Federation of Planets. The Klingon spelling for it is tera'.

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Rise and shine, Earthlings! While I'm off to tackle the daily grind, I couldn't resist brightening your day with some out-of-this-world SCIFI quilts. Here's to thriving and prospering amidst the cosmic chaos of our time!" FYI, I made these!!

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#news #klingons in the news #for all the wrong reasons

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Directions in Klingon

This comes from the KAG website.

Klingon Geography Klingon geography is different than the one on Earth. The Klingon homeworld (juHqo', from juH home and qo' world) is called Qo'noS (also see Kronos). The capital of Qo'noS is called veng wa'DIch (first city, from veng city and wa'DIch first). tlhIng (Kling) is the former capital of Qo'noS. It is the origin of the name for the Klingons: tlhIngan (from tlhIng Kling and ngan inhabitant). Nowadays, Kling is only a district (yoS). Klingons don't have four cardinal directions, like we have on Earth, but only three of them: chan East 90° tIng South west 220° 'ev North west 320°

It is easy to see that there is no Klingon equivalent for i.e. west. Like we interpolate the half-cardinal points from the main cardinal points is also possible in Klingon. In this way, west is a mix of tIng and 'ev, which is also written as 'ev tIng or tIng 'ev. Both versions are used equally. The sun also rises in the east (chan) on Kronos.

The Klingon main cardinal points also appear in the idiom tIngvo' 'evDaq chanDaq, literally from the south west to north west and east, which means something like everywhere.

(Our idiomatic equivalent is from all four corners of the globe.)

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Next Up

Tomorrow, we walk away from general terms for natural features and start to look at place names on Earth, before moving on to non-terrestrial locations (names of planets, polities such as the Klingon Empire and Federation, and then physical locations on Qo'noS and other worlds).

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ngem

ngem woods, forest (n)

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'ambay

'ambay island (n)

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