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'''Common Eldarin''' is the tongue of the ancient [[Eldar]] of the [[Great March]]. It is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_common_ancestor last common ancestor] of all known [[Elvish]] languages. | '''Common Eldarin''' is the tongue of the ancient [[Eldar]] of the [[Great March]]. It is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_common_ancestor last common ancestor] of all known [[Elvish]] languages (broken in [[Quenya]] and [[Common Telerin]] branches). | ||
==Origin== | ==Origin== | ||
Common [[Eldarin]] split off [[Primitive Quendian]], the original language of all [[Quendi]], or Elves, when the Eldar left [[Cuiviénen]] for [[Valinor]], | Common [[Eldarin]] split off [[Primitive Quendian]], the original language of all [[Quendi]], or Elves, when the Eldar left [[Cuiviénen]] for [[Valinor]]. As the years passed, the language of those Elves as they traveled, became a little different than the one spoken before the March. | ||
Since the Eldar dominate the annals of the [[Elder Days]], all the [[Elvish]] languages that appear, come from that branch. The [[Avarin]] languages possibly followed a wholly different evolution. | Since the Eldar dominate the annals of the [[Elder Days]], all the [[Elvish]] languages that appear, come from that branch. The [[Avarin]] languages possibly followed a wholly different evolution, outside Common Eldarin. | ||
==Evolution from Primitive Quendian== | ==Evolution from Primitive Quendian== | ||
During the Great March, minor changes to the Primitive Quendian brought the later Eldarin languages. These changes had to do with several developments of the word-forms, usually normalization. For example: | During the Great March, minor changes to the Primitive Quendian brought the later Eldarin languages. These changes had to do with several developments of the word-forms, usually normalization. For example: | ||
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Common Eldarin is the tongue of the ancient Eldar of the Great March. It is the last common ancestor of all known Elvish languages (broken in Quenya and Common Telerin branches).
Origin
Common Eldarin split off Primitive Quendian, the original language of all Quendi, or Elves, when the Eldar left Cuiviénen for Valinor. As the years passed, the language of those Elves as they traveled, became a little different than the one spoken before the March.
Since the Eldar dominate the annals of the Elder Days, all the Elvish languages that appear, come from that branch. The Avarin languages possibly followed a wholly different evolution, outside Common Eldarin.
Evolution from Primitive Quendian
During the Great March, minor changes to the Primitive Quendian brought the later Eldarin languages. These changes had to do with several developments of the word-forms, usually normalization. For example:
- "Difficult" consonant clusters, usually those with nasals (like bm and dn), were rearranged
- PQ: labmâ (root LAB) > CE: lambâ
- PQ: stabnê (root STAB) > CE stambê
- Final short -a, -e, -o are lost, sometimes producing a long monosyllable as their trace
- PQ: ndêro > CE: ndæ^r[1] (kwende > quendë is an exception)
- a infiction in some stems which produced new diphthongs like ae, ao
- PQ: *melâ (root MEL) > CE *maelâ[2]
- final long -â, -ê, -î, -ô, -û became short (later stage)
- CE: stambê > stambe
- CE: mahtâ > mahta
- CE: lambâ > lamba
At some point, dialects separated the uniformity of that language, and produced the Common Telerin branch.
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, The Etymologies root NDER
- ↑ Vinyar Tengwar 39 p. 10
