Re: Goblin phonology

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:00:13 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>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."
>
>--
>        John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      cowan@ccil.org

Rokbeigalmki actually has one word borrowed from Orkish:
_snag_ "slavery", _snagh_ "slave"; from Orkish _snaga_.
The language didn't have a word for the concept until Stiigiyus
Nededh-Yagh ran into Terabaj's Children (rokbeigalmki term for orcs) up
in the Northlands.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "hhalomot zeh b'emet"

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