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=== Canonicity===
An important concept to spoken and written Klingon is [[canon (fiction)|canonicity]]. Only words and grammatical forms introduced by Marc Okrand are considered canonical Klingon by the KLI and most Klingonists.<ref>{{Cite web |title=canon – Klingon Language Wiki |url=https://klingon.wiki/En/Canon |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=klingon.wiki |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410173316/http://klingon.wiki/En/Canon |url-status=live }}</ref> However, as the growing number of speakers employ different strategies to express themselves, it is often unclear as to what level of [[neologism]] is permissible.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.angelfire.com/trek/yensw/PDF/thesis.pdf |title=Klingon as Linguistic Capital |first=Yens |last=Wahlgren |date=June 2000 |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-date=November 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106070716/http://www.angelfire.com/trek/yensw/PDF/thesis.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> New vocabulary has been collected in a list maintained by the KLI until 2005<ref>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Will |date=December 15, 2005 |url=https://www.kli.org/about-klingon/new-klingon-words/ |title=New Klingon Words (not in the original lexicon) |work=[[Klingon Language Institute|KLI]] |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124131416/https://www.kli.org/about-klingon/new-klingon-words/ |archive-date=November 24, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and had since then been followed up by Klingon expert [[Lieven Litaer]] until the KLI's website was renewed in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last=Litaer |first=Lieven |date=August 20, 2013 |url=https://www.qephom.de/e/newwords.html |title=New canonical Klingon words |work=[[qepHom]] |access-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222112242/https://www.qephom.de/e/newwords.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Two "non-canon" dialects of Klingon are hinted at in the novelization of ''[[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]]'', as [[Saavik]] speaks in Klingon to the only Klingon officer aboard Cpt. Kruge's starship after his death, as the survivors of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|''Enterprise'']]'s self-destruction transport up from the crumbling Genesis Planet to the Klingon ship. The surviving officer, [[List of Star Trek characters (G–M)#Maltz|Maltz]], states that he speaks the ''Rumaiy'' dialect, while Saavik is speaking to him in the ''Kumburan'' dialect of Klingon, per Maltz's spoken reply to her.<ref>{{cite book |title=Star Trek III: The Search for Spock |last=McIntyre |first=Vonda |year=1984 |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=0-671-49500-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/startrekiiisearc2004mcin/page/272 272] |url=https://archive.org/details/startrekiiisearc2004mcin/page/272 }}</ref>