Klingon isn't just a bunch of words, it's its own language, hopefully this isn't new
information to you, so it has its own grammar, which means, surprise, the words are put in
a different order!
[Intro] Hello, Fanubises, I'm officially back from
traveling all over America.
It was awesome, but I'm glad to finally be back at the helm of KhAnubis Productions,
so what better of a way to go back to the normal Sunday video schedule than a new episode
of Klingon For Humans?
First, to give a quick summary of Klingon, it is a nominative-accusative, primarily suffixing
agglutinative language with an object-verb-subject word order.
If you're not a professional linguist, a nominative-accusative language is a language that nominative terms,
like I, you, he, she, it, etc., and accusative terms, like me, you, him, her, it, us, etc.,
are important to the grammar of the language, agglutinative languages are languages where
you form long words by stringing together a bunch of short languages, like QaghHommeyHeylIjmo',
meaning "due to your apparent minor mistakes", it's
all one word, and the OVS word order means that if you said "Dogs chase cats" in Klingon,
it would be arranged like "cats chase dogs", which is one of
the least common word orders among Earth languages, purposefully chosen so it could sound more
alien.
Klingon relies heavily on suffixes, so it's important to know how to arrange them, which
is why Klingon suffixes are ordered based on a set type number, which denotes when the
suffix is said.
For example, let's say "in their so-called villages", or "vengHommeyqoqchajDaq" "veng"
is a city, the starting word, "Hom" is diminutive (and type 1), diminutive means it makes something
smaller, so "vengHom" is a village, "mey" is
plural (and type 2), "qoq" is a dubitative, type 3 suffix (meaning it
expresses doubt, hence the "so-called"), "chaj" means "their", and "Daq" is locative, meaning
"inside".
Klingon has a LOT of suffixes, so I won't be giving you a comprehensive list of them
for the sake of time, but to sum it up, type 1 determines size and affection, type 2 are
plurals, type 3 are for accuracy, type 4 determine possession and determiners, and type 5 is
syntactic role, mostly locative.
Then we get to our final suffix type; the rovers, which are more flexible in their placement,
like "luSoplaHbe'" meaning "they are not able to eat it" vs. "luSopbe'laH" meaning "they
are able to not eat it".
I admit, I don't really understand it myself, it's actually more complicated than that,
so let's move onto prefixes.
Prefixes are actually very simple, prefixes are for things like "I, you, he, she it",
etc., but Klingon works differently in this way.
Instead for saying "I, you, they, we", in Klingon, they say "I-you, they-us, we-him",
etc.
This is because, in Klingon you say who you're talking about, as well as who you're doing
the action to.
I already talked about this, but it's very important in Klingon.
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I often forget to do them every day, it's more like once or twice a week, depending
on how often I remember to do them.
Sorry.