Re: Goblin phonology

>David G. Durand wrote:
>
>> /o/ Should be rare in Orkish, the more so the closer the dialect is to the
>> black speech, given Tolkien's note that Black speech totally lacked /o/.
>
>Actually, he says "in the Black Speech 'o' was rare."
You're probably right... That's what I get for not checking the text. I
always linked the Black Speech with Sumerian, that did lack /o/ entirely,
and that threw me off...

   -- David
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