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Klingonaase was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 28 February 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Klingon language. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Section sizes

Section size for Klingon language (23 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,542	5,542
History	4,102	4,102
Language	5,325	5,325
Speakers	8,289	8,289
Real world usage	1,586	1,586
Use in other media	8,298	10,484
Language learning sources	2,186	2,186
Canon	1,966	2,276
Internal history	310	310
Phonology	4,931	12,081
Consonants	3,203	3,203
Vowels	2,327	2,327
Syllable structure	730	730
Stress	890	890
Grammar	3,826	3,826
Writing systems	4,318	4,318
Vocabulary	2,134	2,134
Example sentences	481	481
See also	386	386
Notes	26	26
References	28	28
Bibliography	908	908
External links	3,131	3,131
Total	64,923	64,923

More inline citations needed

This article has a sufficient number of citations to establish notability, but several paragraphs and sentences remain unsourced. Yue🌙 01:57, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be happy to add those missing citations, but I don't know where those are needed. Please add the tag "Citation needed" so that I and other editors can provide the needed citation. -- Lieven (talk) 20:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Language Timing (Section 7.4)

The section describing the stresses in the language implies that Klingon's isochrony is not syllable-timed , but more probably stress-timed (there does not seem to be a mention of moras, or sub-syllabic phonological time units). Does anyone well-versed in Klingon know the answer to this so we can add it to the section? It would help in explaining pronunciation greatly. I have found nothing through online research that would definitively confirm that Klingon is stress-timed. Dane13 (talk) 00:34, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am well-versed in Klingon and would like to answer, but I'm not sure it is possible after all. Indeed, the creator of the language never mentioned any of the terms you talk about, and on the other hand, everything we know is written in the page. So what exactly do you want to know? -- Lieven (talk) 20:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Finding source to verify why the Klingon Latin alphabet has capital letters

In November 2018, Marc Okrand told me in person that the reason why he designed the Klingon Latin alphabet to have capital letters was to denote sounds that are not natively found in American English. This was intended to help teach the Star Trek actors how to speak the Klingon language correctly. When actors saw capital letters denoted in the script, they had to pay special attention to them to ensure that they were correctly pronouncing phonemes that they were not natively accustomed to.

If anybody has a secondary source to verify this, this information should be cited in the article. Zero Contradictions (talk) 14:28, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]