Klingon (Fictional from the Star Trek series)
Usage Note: Many sentences which in English would be phrased as requests are represented in Klingon by imperative verbs, which are very freely used in this language. As a result, the word "please" is absent from the Klingon lexicon. Whereas in English one asks "what is it", in Klingon one would be more likely to say yIngu' (literally, "Identify it!"), and for Klingons, "ordering" a drink is not a metaphor: romuluS HIq HInob "give me Romulan ale!"
- Klingon: tlhIngan Hol /tKINAn xol/ ("Klingon language")
- hello: nuqneH /nuqnEx/ (literally "What do you want?", only said when someone approaches you, not the other way around)
- goodbye: Qapla' /qXAplA?/ (literally "Success!")
- please: 9
- thank you: qatlho' /qAtKo?/ (when speaking to one person), Satlho' /s`AtKo?/ (when speaking to more than one person)
- that one: Dochvetlh /d`otSvEtK/ (literally "that thing")
- how much?: 'ar? /?Ar/
- yes: HIja' /xIdZA?/ or HISlaH /xIs`lAx/ in response to a yes/no question; luq /luq/ in response to an order
- no: ghobe' /GobE?/
- sorry: jItlhIj /dZItKIdZ/ (literally "I apologise")
- I don't understand: jIyajbe' /dZIjAdZbE?/
- where's the bathroom?: puchpa' vISuch. nuqDaq 'oH? /putSpA? vIs`utS nuqd`aq ?ox/ (literally "I seek the bathroom. Where is it?")
- generic toast: 'IwlIj jachjaj /?IwlIdZ dZAtSdZAdZ/
- Do you speak English? DIvI' Hol DajatlhlaH'a'? /d`IvI? xol d`AdZAtKlAx?A?/
- foreigner: nov /nov/
