Avarin

Avarin is a term used to refer to the combined languages of the Avari.

[edit] Structure

There were at least six different languages, or dialects, in the Avarin group.^[1] The various dialects did not have a common development,^[2] although all descended from Primitive Quendian.^[1]

Three larger divisions of Avarin are recorded: West Avarin, North Avarin and East Avarin. The West Avarin group was nearest to the Eldarin languages of the west; North Avarin was very peculiar, with no initial consonant groups. Not much is known of East Avarin.^[2]

[edit] Other versions

The Avarin were called Lemberin tongues which were originally intended to have a resemblance in sound to Goidelic, Baltic, and Finnic languages.^[3]

[edit] Wordlist

• Avarin words

[edit] External links

• Avarin: All Six Words

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: Author's Notes to Quendi and Eldar", Note 9, p. 410
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} J.R.R. Tolkien, "Quenya Phonology", in Parma Eldalamberon XIX (edited by Christopher Gilson), pp. 18-28
3. ↑ David Salo's post in Elfling