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From: dick@cs.vu.nl (Dick Grune)
Subject: Klingon is not Mutsun
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 21:13:21 GMT
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Marc Okrand, the author of the language of the Klingons in Startrek, has a PhD
in linguistics, on a thesis on Mutsun, one of the Ohlonean (= Costanoan)
languages.

This raises the obvious question whether Klingon is a kind of Mutsun, or,
as somebody once put it: "..., or is it a sort of generalized Athabascan with
the serial number filed off?". (Btw, Mutsun is not Athabascan, it's Penutian,
just like Mayan.)

Thanks to the new WWW catalog of all Dutch university libraries I have finally
been able to put my hands on Okrand's thesis, to answer this question.

The answer is a definite No, and I've made a four-page write-up with a
comparison of both languages:
ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/publications/MutsunKlingonComparison.ps.gz .
Sorry it isn't in HTML, but I haven't found out yet how to make overprinted
characters in HTML (if at all possible).

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