Lessons

Here is the list of lessons for studying the conlang called Nûrlâm, yet another fan dialect of Tolkien's Black Speech.

• Overview of Nûrlâm dialect

1. The very basics:
   • Orthography, pronunciation, phonology
   • Nouns, articles
   • Counting: numerals, quantifier words
   • Verbs: commands and imperatives
   • Descriptive words: adjectives and word order
   • Agglutination and clitics
   • Declension classes
   • Verbs: present tense, 3rd person endings. Simple sentences
   • Descriptive words: adverbs
   • Verbs: past tense. More adverbs
   • Prepositions and postpositions
   • Verbs: future tense
   • Verbs: to be
   • Pronouns: subject
   • Pronouns: object
   • Negation
   • Cases: genitive
   • Cases: dative
2. Deeper knowledge:
   • Verbs: aspects
   • Questions: general, alternative, disjunctive
   • Cases: essive
   • Descriptive words: comparison
   • Pro-forms: demonstrative
   • Existential sentences
   • Cases: allative and elative
   • Cases: adessive and inessive
   • Cases: ablative and elative
   • Directions
   • Cases: instrumental and comitative
   • Participles
   • Predicatives
   • Compound verbs and infinitives
   • More about numerals
   • Descriptive words: adverbials and their word order
   • Pro-forms: relative. Complex sentences
   • Cases: intrative
3. Advanced:
   • Special questions and interrogative pro-forms
   • Pro-forms: indefinite
   • Pronouns: reflexive and reciprocal.
   • Pronouns: declension in cases.
   • Compound sentences. Conjunctions.
   • Verbs: passive
   • Gerundive
   • Possession and ownership
   • Impersonal sentences
   • Abundance and absence
   • More prepositions and postpositions
   • Verbs: subjunctive mood
   • Verbs: grammatical voices beyond passive
   • Direct and indirect speech
4. Mastering the language:
   • Making new words: derivational suffixes
   • Verbs: phrasal verbs, prefixes
   • Affix order: nouns
   • Affix order: verbs