Some Pictures of pIqaD.

These are some pictures of the different styles of pIqaD that I have encountered, mainly those used by Nick Nicholas, Roger Cheesbro and myself. It is my intention to write a more comprehensive description of the Klingon writing system with detailed information about different styles of longhand as used by klingonists and Klingons around the galaxy. (Sooner or later.) The main research for this article consists of these pictures, but as of now the pictures will have to speak for themselves.
     If you have anything to contribute, you are more than welcome to contact me <zrajm@klingonska.org>, and share what you've got. All contributions will, of course, be fully credited.  

pIqaD à lá KLI. (Taken from from the KLI webpage.)
This is what is normally understood as pIqaD.




The Paramount version of pIqaD. (Taken from Star Trek Encyclopedia.)
These are the glyphs that Paramount use on screen. You can see
that some of them differs quite a lot from the picture above.




Klingon pronunciation in ta' Hol written in IPA.
I verified the IPA transcription with Marc Okrand during qep'a'
chorghDIch, so this is actually canon, boys and girls.




An example of pIqaD typography in use (by Kevin A. Geiselman).
[http://www.fyi.net/~kordite/dochmey.htm]