Šüvïŋ-Úfüš

The Šüvïŋ-Úfüš describes the mechanism in the Ïwë-Ïrhïd language by which words are shortened to their first few phonemes for the purposes of abbreviation, affixation, and ease of diction. It is an extremely common phenomenon both in writing and speech, and represents a major factor in linguistic evolution as words are repeatedly abbreviated, combined with others, and warped.

Although it was almost certainly first developed in the Arfarotï, it is generally not included as part of the contributions of the Žötó-Žimiara due to the lack of information over who created it. Instead, historians generally agree that it was the result of a tribal-wide shift in how they approached linguistic efficiency and the role of speech and writing in society.