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I personally can speak (some) Klingon. If you need to have something translated please post the question on WikiAnswers and I will endevour to translate for you.

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I can't speak much Klingon, but I read somewhere that "nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'" means "Where's the restroom?" The q is said like a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

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You could also say: nuqDaq yuch Dapol? Which means: Where do you keep the chocolate?

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Some of the other more interesting sounds of Klingon are Q, ng, gh, and tlh. Q (which is different from q) is done by basically making a choking sound all the way in the back of your throat. It is the first sound in the popular Klingon word Qapla', which means "success". ng is the same as English ng, but unlike in English, in Klingon it can appear at the *beginning* of a word. For instance, there is the word ngan, which means "inhabitant". To say this, imagine saying "Klingon", but then leaving out the K-l-i, and just saying the "ngon" part.

The gh sound is like growling or gargling. Indeed, the Klingon word for gargle uses it twice: ghagh. The tlh is perhaps the hardest to explain. I've heard it described as a t followed by a whispered l (that's a lower case L, not an upper case i). What you do is put the tip of your tongue against the top front of your mouth and make a t sound, immediately followed by letting raspy air come out the sides of your tongue (still leaving it where it was, tip against the top front of the mouth). This sound doesn't exist in English, but does in Aztec. It's a very important sound in Klingon, since it is the first sound in the word for "Klingon", which is tlhIngan. Indeed, to ask someone if they speak Klingon, you would say: tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'? ("Do you speak Klingon?"). Note that tlhIngan means Klingon as in a Klingon *person*. The Klingon Language is said as tlhIngan Hol (Hol means "language"). Oh, let's clarify the I (capital i, not lower case L). This vowel is always pronounced as short English i, as in "big", "sit", or "listen". So, tlhIngan sounds just like "Klingon" except for the tlh at the very beginning instead of K.

So let's make a sentence with all these interesting sounds:

tlhIngan Qe' DaSammeH Qapla' Daghajjaj.

"May you have success finding the Klingon restaurant."

P.S. If you really want to learn Klingon, you'll want to get "The Klingon Dictionary" by Marc Okrand. More than just a dictionary, it describes the sounds and the grammar and everything. Klingon has a fascinating and unique grammar. For example, if I were to translate the five individual words of the above sentence literally, they would mean "Klingon", "restaurant", "in order that you locate it", "success", and "may you have it".

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