Lessons

•  Introduction
•  Lesson I – Background information
•  Lesson II – Black Speech Sounds and Pronunciation
•  Lesson III – Nouns
•  Lesson IV – Verbs: Infinitive and Present Tense
•  Lesson V – Verbs: Future Tense
•  Lesson VI – Adjectives and Word Order
•  Lesson VII – Pre- and Postpositions, Noun Cases, Phrase Verbs
•  Lesson VIII – Verbs: Past Tense
•  Lesson IX – Numbers
•  Lesson X – Pronouns and Commands (Imperatives)

•  * Lesson XI – Adverbs, Gerund
•  * Lesson XII – Comparisons
•  * Lesson XIII – Suffix Order and Indirect Objects
•  * Lesson XIV – Questions
•  * Lesson XV – Participles and Passive Voice
•  * Lesson XVI – Conditional and Subjunctive Moods
•  Appendix A: Prefixes and Suffixes
•  Appendix B: Grammar quick overview
•  Appendix C: Measures, Directions, Army Ranks
•  Appendix D: List Of Abbreviations
•  Appendix E: Canonical Tolkien's Black Speech

Appendix D: List Of Abbreviations

Tolkien Sources

AO	1st Age Angband Orkish
BOLT	Book Of Lost Tales
BS	Black Speech
CBS	Classical Black Speech
DBS	Debased Black Speech
JRRT	J. R. R. Tolkien
LOTR	Lord Of The Rings
PN	Personal name
SD	Sauron Defeated
TH	The Hobbit
TK	J. R. R. Tolkien

Other Inventors

7N	Seventh Nazgul
AA	A. Appleyard
AN	Andrew
BA	Björn Axén, author of Zhâburi dialect
depr	deprecated word (usually taken from real world languages)
DS	David Salo, a linguist who worked on the languages of J.R.R. Tolkien for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and The Hobbit
EH	Unnamed compilative dialect by unknown linguist from page http://elhath.tripod.com/powl.htm
EL	Elerrina, probably the author of full Ring Verse translation into Black Speech
HG	Horngoth Orkish
HORN	Horngoth Orkish
LL	Lalaith (aka The List Goddess), author of Olympic Verse translation
LOS	Mordor, Land Of Shadow Message Board
LP	LOTR Fanatics Plaza forum
LUG	Lugrekh
MB	Mugbûrz Orkish
MERP	Middle-Earth Role Play
MK	Matilda Koren, contributor to Zhâburi dialects
ON	Orcish Nations site. The host of MERP dialect
RE	Rob Eaglestone, author of Horngoth Orkish
SN	The Second Nazgul
SOW	Middle-Earth: Shadow of War computer game, words invented by David Salo
Summoning	Summoning – Mirdautas Vras song
SV	Svartiska Orkish
TAD	TwoAxesDwarf
ULK	Ulkgashnog
UNF	Un4givenOrc
UTL	Utumno LARP. See SV
ZA	Dialect “Zhâburi A”
ZB	Dialect “Zhâburi B”
ZF	Za Frûmi music band

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