Director Nicholas Meyer preferred to keep the scene as it was, for "the laugh." Nichelle Nichols complained that with the Klingons as the Federation's primary enemy, a good communications officer would be able to speak at least basic Klingon. ( Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) Uhura had several on hand aboard the Enterprise-A in 2293 when she had to convince a Klingon patrol post that they were the Klingon freighter Ursva, including Introduction to Klingon Grammar. ( TNG: " Parallels")īy the late-23rd century, several Federation authors wrote books on learning the Klingon language. ( TNG: " Loud As A Whisper") Still, as of the late 24th century, there did not seem to be a Klingon word for "jolly". In the mid- 24th century, the word "peacemaker" appeared for the first time in Klingonese after the negotiations mediated by Riva between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets took place.
It was constantly changing to meet the needs and aspirations of the people. ( VOY: " Hope and Fear") It was not however an immutable language. In fact, B'Elanna Torres stated that she found the language a little too robust for her taste. ( ENT: " Exile")Īrturis, who knew over four thousand languages, described Klingon as a robust language. ( ENT: " Broken Bow") Sato once remarked that a book given to her by Tarquin, written by a civilization over a thousand years dead, was in a language very similar to Medieval Klingon. The first Human to become fluent in it was Hoshi Sato in 2151, who learned from a linguistic database provided by the Vulcans.
The Klingon language contained eighty poly-guttural dialects constructed on an adaptive syntax. Handwritten Klingon script on a t'Sang board ( 2257)
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