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Khuzdul language

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Manwë 05/02/17
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Aiya my dear friends

After taiking with armando we decided, i teach khuzdul language from this week,when you want learn a new language, first you should know about how and history of there language

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Khuzdul, or Dwarvish, was the secret language of the Dwarves.

History

Aulë, the creator of the the first Dwarves, taught them "the language he had devised for them". Not much is known of the language, as the Dwarves kept it to themselves. One of the only major phrases known to outsiders is their battle-cry: Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu! meaning Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!

Khuzdul is unique among languages in that it belongs to a separate language phylum, unrelated to the languages of Elves. On the other hand, there are many similarities between Khuzdul and the native tongues of men, such as Taliska, the language of the first and third houses of the Edain. This is because in the early days of Middle-earth, before Men crossed into Beleriand, they had with the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains and in areas further East. Taliska was the ancestor of Adûnaic, the tongue of Númenor and the direct ancestor of theCommon Speech. Both languages displayed Khuzdul influences.

Etymology

The word Khuzdul (also spelled Khuzdûl in late manuscripts is composed of the stem KH-Z-D, and the adjectival or genitival ending -ul.

Influences

Khuzdul appears to be structured, like the Semitic languages, around triconsonantal roots, such as kh-z-d, b-n-d, and z-g-l.

The Dwarvish language sounds much like Hebrew, and indeed Tolkien noted some similarities between the Dwarves and the Jews: both were "at once natives and aliens in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue…". Another reason Hebrew was chosen as a basis for Khuzdul is that it is unlike any European language, and thus sufficiently alien to western ears to show just how different Dwarven speech was from the Elvish languages.

Neo-Khuzdul

For The Lord of the Rings (film series) and The Hobbit (film series), the linguist David Salo used what little is known of the Khuzdul to create enough of a language for use in the movies. This is usually referred to as neo-Khuzdul by Tolkienists. Gimli says the Neo-Khuzdul insult, Ishkhaqwi ai durugnul, (commonly translated "I spit on your grave!") to Haldir in the Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring. Salo did not provide this phrase, and it didn't fit easily into his neo-Khuzdul. When the scriptwriter for The Hobbit (film series) asked him about it with the idea of having Thorin use the same curse, Salo reverse-engineered Gimli's line into a neo-Khuzdul phrase îsh kakhfê ai-‘d-dûr-rugnul meaning "May my excrement be poured upon the naked-jawed (ones)".

Ok my friends, i teach khuzdul language from after week and i write lessons of this language and grammer of there for you.

Khuzdul language-Aiya my dear friends

After taiking  with armando we decided,  i teach khuzdul language from this week,when
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