Common Standard

The common form simplifies the pronomial system and the adjective system. Many changes are already mentioned above. Here are some others:

1. Common Black Speech favors the terms matlûthal (elf), khozd (dwarf), and tark (man) over the proper forms golug, kuzd, and shara. It also prefers goth (mighty, master), brus (dark), and throq (devour) over the proper forms shakh (lord), búrz (dark), and matizin (eat). In general, the harsher sounding and simpler forms of words are preferred in the common form.

2. The negative noun prefix sha- replaces all other negative prefixes.

3. The endings -ûrz (meaning -ing, -ern, -ful, and -est) and -tú (another form of -ûrz which is used when the last letter of a word is a vowel) completely replace -al (-ed), -ûgum (gerund), -ûm (-ment), -uz (-ed and -en), -kûrz (-ous) and -arz (-ly). The ending -um (meaning -ness or particularizing suffix) is kept and used.

4. The many complex endings meaning "before" are replaced by the word ub in every single context.

5. Similarly, -ishi (in), -shi (within), -ishiz (inside), -shiz (into) are all replaced by -ishi. Also, -it (behind), -ht (behind singular), -itu (behind plural), -htu (behind plural 2) are all replaced by -it.

6. All of the third-person endings are generally unused and replaced by the standard forms of those endings.

7. Many times a singular word will be pluralized, even though it is still singular. This occurs if the word is a title (like lord) or if it is a continuous action (like devour). For this reason, in the common form of Black Speech, throq (meaning devour), and durbag (meaning lord) are rendered throqu (devour-plural) and durbgu (lords). Interestingly, durbagu phonetically shifts to durbgu.

8. The word for ruler, durbag, is shifted to mean lord. Thus, the common word for ruler is durub.

9. The case system is reduced to simply the genitive form -ob, the absolutive case, and the ergative case. The other cases are represented by stand-alone words or implied by the context of the sentence. Also the suffixaufnahme is reduced. Instead of kan mokh-Ø-ish nakbûr û shara-ôz-Ø-bûr karnbûr, you would say kan mokh-Ø nak bûr û shara-ob, bûr karn.

10. The word order has fully solidified into SOV.

The pronouns are simplified to merely he, him, his, her, I, you, she, it, they, them, who, my, yours, its, me, mine, we, our, ours, etc. Basically, the pronouns used in Standard English are the only ones used Common Yambúrz.