BSSScribe – a Tengwar, Cirth and Glagolitic transcriber was updated.
Dushgoi, Minas Morgul and Dol Guldur
Here the etymological interconnection between Black Speech “dush”, “gûl” and Sindarin place names “Minas Morgul” and “Dol Guldur” will be discussed.
Analysis of Ring Inscription by J.R.R. Tolkien himself
I've started my own dialect of Neo Black Speech called "Nûrlâm" in the late 2018 as a subdialect of Shadowlandian (LOS). But the work with direct sources lead to discovery that everything was wrong...
Notice: this is repost of older article from 2020 published on the Black Speech School forum, with some mistakes corrected.
Black Speech and Albanian
Reddit users have discovered that Orcish Nations site's word-list (mostly from MERP dialect) has quite a lot Albanian words. Unfortunately these words were borrowed into Svartiska and Shadowlandian dialects too. Original post. The fact of borrowing from Albanian would be OK if it wasn't almost half of the wordlist with very lazy phonetical adaptation. So, I discourage you from using MERP-derived words. The dictionaries were updated with new etymological information, but probably I've missed few words.
News from the Bronze Age
Reddit user u/get_on_my_level_son has made an amazing One Ring inscription in Hittite cuneiform (with ink and paper though, it's time to make a clay tablet 😊). Source
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