Black Speech [BLKS]
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[Deactivated User] on 5 February 2022
Language type
International Auxiliary Language (IAL)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Black Speech
I just desperately wanted to make my own Neo-Black Speech okay?
Sample of Black SpeechCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q1 | ɢ | ||||||
| Fricative | θ | ð2 | s | z | ʃ | ʒ3 | ʁ | ħ | ||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||
- expanded from canon phonology
- expanded from canon phonology
- expanded from canon phonology
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | ɵ | o | |||
| Open | a | |||||
Syllable Structure(C)(C)V(C)(C)
Allowed singular onsets: n, m, d, t, g, k, th, dh, b, p, sh, zh s, z, l, h
Onset consonant clusters: Cr or Cl
Codas are less restricted than onset:
Allowed singular codas: sh, zh, g, k, b, p ,t, d, l, gh, kh, z, s, m, n
Coda consonant clusters:
nasel + stop (ex: mp, nt, mk)
Rhotic + sibilant (ex: rz, lzh)
Fricative (sans h) + stop (ex: zg, rb,thk)
Allowed singular onsets: n, m, d, t, g, k, th, dh, b, p, sh, zh s, z, l, h
Onset consonant clusters: Cr or Cl
Codas are less restricted than onset:
Allowed singular codas: sh, zh, g, k, b, p ,t, d, l, gh, kh, z, s, m, n
Coda consonant clusters:
nasel + stop (ex: mp, nt, mk)
Rhotic + sibilant (ex: rz, lzh)
Fricative (sans h) + stop (ex: zg, rb,thk)
Stress informationstress is always first syllable.
OtherSince the canon examples of pure black speech are so rare, I have decided to fill in logical gaps of the phonemes and syllable structure rules. I find it more likely that two sentences do not contain all possible sounds, than that Mairon/Sauron would have such an uneven unrealistic sound system.
Letters such as sh (which I have interpreted as /ʃ/) have been given their logical pairs.
Instead of only allowing consonant clusters as they are shown, I have decided that clusters like /mp/ show proof that nasals can be combined with stops in the coda.
Letters such as sh (which I have interpreted as /ʃ/) have been given their logical pairs.
Instead of only allowing consonant clusters as they are shown, I have decided that clusters like /mp/ show proof that nasals can be combined with stops in the coda.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Black Speech. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Black SpeechOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/ð/1 | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɢ/ | Hh/ħ/ | Ii/i/ |
| Kk/k/ | KH kh/q/2 | Ll/ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ʁ/ | Ss/s/ |
| SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Ûû/ɵ/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/3 | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- expanded from canon phonology
- expanded from canon phonology
- expanded from canon phonology
