Features for Black speech

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Phonology

Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular continuants only
Syllable Structure WALS Complex
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively concatenative
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strongly suffixing

Word Order

Order of Subject and Verb WALS SV
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral-Noun

Lexicon

M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Fauxlang

Comments:

  1. On Nov. 24, 2013, 11:56 a.m., k1234567890y wrote:
    based on informations found in http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Speech , http://www.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Black_Speech , http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/orkish.htm and http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/blackspeech.htm.