How extensive is Terry's Dwarfish?

[unseenu]

I have recently finished reading Thud! which featured many dwarf words,there was also quite a few in TFE.My question is this:did terry construct the Dwarf language in a simmilar way to Tolkien's elf language or does he just make it up when the plot calls for it?

 

[Quark]

Considering the way Dwarfish is spoken in the Discworld books, I find it highly unlikely you could base a language on it... but you never know, after all .

 

[jonny]

I hope it's a real language and I would love to learn it

Sir Terry should write a 'Teach yourself Dwarfish'

 

[Tonyblack]

Personally, I think Terry only does it to give Stephen Briggs a hard time when he reads the audiobooks.

 

[Batty]

Personally, I think Terry only does it to give Stephen Briggs a hard time when he reads the audiobooks.

 

[Quark]

"G..z'k..ar'ka'g'u... ck'uz... ack! Forget it!"