This article is about the fictional language. For the variety of American English, see Black English.
Black Speech
Created by
J. R. R. Tolkien
Date
c. 1945–1973
Setting and usage
Mordor in Middle-earth
Users
None
Purpose
Constructed language
Artistic language
Black Speech
Language codes
ISO 639-3
None (mis)
Glottolog
None
The Black Speech is one of the fictional languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien for his legendarium, where it was spoken in the evil realm of Mordor. In the fiction, Tolkien describes the language as created by Sauron as a constructed language to be the sole language of all the servants of Mordor.
Little is known of the Black Speech except the inscription on the One Ring. Scholars note that Tolkien constructed this to be plausible linguistically, and to sound rough and harsh. The scholar Alexandre Nemirovski, on linguistic evidence, has proposed that Tolkien based it on the ancient Hurrian language, which like the Black Speech was agglutinative.[1]
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