Introduction
This book is intended as an educational aid. It been produced for use by entities already in possession of the Klingon Dictionary as published by POCKET BOOKS (ISBN: 0-671-74559-X). The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand is the only publication known by the author to contain a ‘cannon’ grammatical sketch of the Klingon language. To use this unauthorised dictionary to communicate, especially with Klingons, without that sketch could
prove fatal. Just remember the Klingon Language should not be treated lightly. If you ignore this advice the question to ask yourself is, "Do YOU feel lucky?"
Hopefully you have also listened to some or all of the excellent audiotapes, produced by SIMON & SCHUSTER, on the subject,
After all the work done by Marc Okrand, with the F.S.R.C, for which funding came to a premature end. ‘The Klingon Directory’ learned that work had not in fact stopped. Marc and other interested parties, in particular the Klingon Language Institute have continued to analyse and gather information on the Klingon language, even if only at a slow pace.
To cut a long story short, there now exists several separate lists of cannon words (known as Cannon if connected to Marc Okrand) including the two published in The Klingon Dictionary itself.
As a result ‘The Klingon Directory’, which was originally set up to produce tlhIngan Qummem, commissioned the author of this work to gather all these words together and publish them, including affixes, in one single list - ‘The (unauthorised) Klingon Dictionary’. The reason for putting everything into one list is so that the meaning of a word can be discovered without having to
know whether it’s a root word, prefix, suffix or just a word that is only known to exist or be used in conjunction with other words.
It is hoped that no-one, within the Federation, will object to the publication of this book. There has been no intentional breech of copyright although it is probably inevitable since certain words have been referred to as cannon.
The word cannon being accepted as standing for words whose copyright has previously been owned by Paramount Pictures or Marc Okrand. The author and ourselves hereby declare to the reader or any affected parties that this publication makes no claim on these copyrights.
The sole purpose of this book is educational. we hope that anyone reading it will consider it as just another piece of the jigsaw towards improving their understanding of the Klingon language.
But please, read on.
Pronunciation
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