"Black Speech" meaning in English

See Black Speech in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Black Speech}} Black Speech
  1. A constructed language designed by J. R. R. Tolkien, intended to be associated with evil. Categories (topical): Artificial languages, J. R. R. Tolkien, Languages
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          "ref": "2009, Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, →ISBN, page 75:",
          "text": "Many later scholars have agreed with Tolkien on his general declarations about his languages (for example, that the Elvish languages are ‘beautiful’, while the Black Speech is cacophonous or that the languages originated Tolkien’s mythology) and skipped the whole issue of the role of the langauges in his fiction by treating them as a fanciful accessory unworthy of independent study.",
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          "text": "Accepting Alexander Nemirovski’s theory that Tolkien’s Black Speech was based on the long-extinct Hurrian language, the group felt this was an appropriate starting point.",
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