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 Some people assume that letter //û// indicates rounded close front sound //[y]// (because of transformation Saruman's moniker "Sharkû" into "Sharkey"). Moreover these two sounds are sometimes mixed in some Tengwar inscriptions.
 But such proposition is doubtful as circumflex indicates just the length of vowels in other Tolkien's languages too.
-However if you want to create a subdialect of Nûrlâm with such feature, other long vowels should be transformed too, e.g. //î// often used to substitute //e// into //[ə]// or //[ɜː]//, //â// into //[æ]//, //ô// into //[øː]//. Subdialect may even include pair //e// (//[ə]//) and //ê// (//[ɜː]//).
+However if you want to create a subdialect of Nûrlâm with such feature, other long vowels should be transformed too, e.g. //î// often used to substitute //e// into //[ə]// or //[ɜ]//, //â// into //[æ]//, //ô// into //[øː]//. Subdialect may even include pair //e// (//[ə]//) and //ê// (//[ɜː]//).
 Some sub-dialects may differentiate between vowels with acute and circumflex according to Sindarin or their own rules (as in [[MERP]]), but Nûrlâm's dictionary has all long vowels normalized to circumflex diacritics.
 The vowel //i// may be realized as near-close [ɪ] or even as close central [ɨ] in some circumstances to avoid palatalization.

Nûrlâm –Black Speech dialect wiki