Many of the initial and medial consonants changed as well. Another development was a syncope, or contraction, of the words, the loss of diphthongs and the vowel change of e to a and o to u. The first rule is the loss of vowels so instead of word often ending a vowel most common pattern became CVC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) instead of CVCV. * The prefix ur- indicates point of origin. I am planning to publish a more detailed text on the principles of word creation for Zhâburi. I will here present an overview of this development. I will here present some my ideas and rules of the this phonological evolution. The evolution of Primitive Elvish, really the urelvish * because it was really the very basic language of the first Elves captured by The Hunter – Pârn – before Oromë found the newly awakened elves. This sketch will be published in parts as I create it. And it can be used to sketch and develop the other Orcish dialects that emerged in the first millennium of the Second Age.
In addition it provides us with the means to systematically take Elvish roots and words from primitive Elvish and transform them to suitable words for Zhâburi. The purpose for this sketch is to provide a basic vocabulary for the Zâburi dialect of the Black Speech. This is an attempt to sketch this Angband Orcish as it was before it split up into several different dialects. When Sauron wanted to gather the Orcs under his command, when he founded Mordor, he used the Angband Orcish, which he knew very well, as a natural base for his Black Speech. Later, after the War of Wrath the Orcs scattered and without a central authority a myriad of Orcish dialects emerged so that after a thousand years they could not understand each other. I imagine Angband Orcish was quite stable as long as the Orcs were under Morgoth’s rule because of the need to organise the mass armies of Orcs.
Orcish speech is probably the most varied of all the languages of Arda but the variant spoken in Angband during the last years of the First Age was probably the last – and only? – coherent Orcish Speech. It is the language that Tour understood, as mentioned in The Fall of Gondolin. The War of the Jewels, The period from about the rise of the Moon and the Sun and the return of Noldor to Middle Earth, to the War of Wrath. The dialect presented here is the Orcish of Angband which the Orcs spoke during the classical period of Silmarillion. These language developed with the Orcs as they were transformed from Elves. The Orcish of the First Age must have been different both in time and space, with one Orcish dialect of Utumno and another of Angband. I imagine that the foundation of this Orcish is Primitive Elvish which was spoken by the Elves who were taken by Melkor. * That Orcish was a base for Black Speech and that Orcish was an Elvish language was an idea I had when I worked on Zhâburi A but it did not have any impact on the actual development of the language. Hence some kind of sketch of this Proto-Orcish is needed. One of the basic ideas of Zhâburi B (and one of the major things that differs from Zhâburi A)* is that Sauron based his Black Speech on Orcish and that Orcish really is part of the Elvish language family (see Elvish, Orcish and the Black Speech). I have also called this Ur-Orcish (Swedish “urorkiska”), Proto-Orcish and First Age-Orcish but I think Angband-Orcish really is the most appropriate term.
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