Dwarvish

[Eyalan]

I can't find anything Dwarvish, but since I play Gimli I should be able to say at least sómething in the Dwarven tongue, right? So who knows anything in dwarf to help me out?

[Luthien]

www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9902/langinfo.html


"Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!" means "Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!" It's a battle cry.

www.uib.no/People/hnohf/khuzdul.htm

That last one has a bunch of facts about the language.

[Eyalan]

Ah thanks Luthien! And how do we pronounce an â?

[Luthien]

I'm not positive.... see if you can make any sense of this paragraph.

If some consonants were somewhat peculiar, the vowel system was pretty ordinary. The short vowels seem to form a classical five-vowel system, a, e, i, o, u, and they are all attested also as long vowels â, ê, î, ô and û. According to Tolkien's notes on the Angerthas runes, reduction vowels like the ones heard in butter were also common (and written as runes only used by Dwarves). However, such vowels are not directly attested (unless some of the u's and e's represent such vowels). Long vowels may be shortened when unstressed (?), compare Khazâd with Khazad-dûm. (Actually we know nothing about how Khuzdul words are accented; see, however, the entry salôn in the wordlist below for a possible hint.) It may also be that long vowels must be shortened before a consonant cluster; ûl "streams" becomes -ul- in the name Azanulbizar

[Eyalan]

If I get it right, â should be pronounced as a long a? (quote was a little hard to get, since English is not my native language, so please correct me if I'm wrong here...)

[Luthien]

Yeah, I think you're right.... English is my first language, and I still had troubles with it!

The sentence I gave you is the only sentence we have I believe. Dwarvish isn't as far developed as some of the other languages.

[Miluiel Greenleaf]

I'm English but I don't have a clue....