Re: Goblin phonology
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, August 16, 1999, 18:00 |
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."
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