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====== Differences from Shadowlandian ====== | ====== Differences from Shadowlandian ====== | ||
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+ | Even though [[Nûrlâm]] started as derivative of [[black_speech_dialects# | ||
Shortly, Nûrlâm is different mostly in treating: | Shortly, Nûrlâm is different mostly in treating: | ||
* suffixes //-um// and //-at// of Tolkien' | * suffixes //-um// and //-at// of Tolkien' | ||
- | * pronoun system | ||
* plural number of nouns and adjectives | * plural number of nouns and adjectives | ||
- | * verb's suffix | + | * word order |
+ | * pronoun system | ||
+ | * grammar of verbs | ||
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+ | ===== Suffix -um ===== | ||
+ | All previous Neo Black Speech dialects including Shadowlandian treated //-um// as abstract noun suffix, similar to English //-ness// (as in " | ||
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+ | ===== Suffix -at ===== | ||
+ | Shadowlandian treated the suffix //-at// as infinitive or 3rd person singular marker. PE#17 states, that //-at// is a suffix of // | ||
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+ | To resolve ambiguity, Nûrlâm introduced new suffix for [[grammar_infinitive|pure infinitive]], | ||
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+ | Nûrlâm also changed verbs' singular marker from //-at// to //-â(t)// (//-t-// is inserted only if other suffix starting with vowel follows 3rd person marker). | ||
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+ | ===== Plural number ===== | ||
+ | Shadowlandian had a tricky rule, where unanimated nouns had a plural marker //-u//, while animated nouns didn' | ||
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+ | Standard Nûrlâm does not have a suffix of plural number for all nouns, pronouns or adjectives. Moreover, all nouns are treated as plural by default! For clarification the exact quantity should be used (" | ||
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+ | Plural pronouns in Nûrlâm have distinct form and are less regular than Shadowlandian's. | ||
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+ | ===== Word order ===== | ||
+ | Shadowlandian forced modifier words (like adjectives and adverbs) to be put after the words they describe. While majority of examples found in this Nûrlâm' | ||
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+ | ===== Pronouns ===== | ||
+ | Personal pronouns differ in all Neo-Black Speech dialects. Nûrlâm had to do it too. In PE#17 it is stated that "the verbal system [of Black Speech] must have included pronominal suffixes expressing the object, as well as those indicating the subject" | ||
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+ | Nûrlâm supports subdialects. So-called [[syntax_analytic|" | ||
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+ | Demonstrative, | ||
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+ | ===== Grammar of verbs ===== | ||
+ | Nûrlâm changed the order of verb's suffixes and added a lot of grammatical particles that can join the verb, compared to Shadowlandian. As was stated above, subject pronouns join the verb as prefixes, also a new feature of Nûrlâm. Also, markers of 3rd person singular and plural were changed from " | ||
+ | [[grammar_participle|Participle]] suffixes were organized into a more unified system in Nûrlâm. |