Quenya [QUENY]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Quenya
This is my attempt to map the Quenya language by J.R.R Tolkien in CWS in order to learn it effectively.
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m mʲ | n nʷ | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p ᵐp | ᵐb | t tʷ ⁿt | ⁿd | c | k kʷ ᵑkʷ ᵑk | ᵑgʷ ᵑg | |||||||||
Fricative | f | v | [θ]1 | s sʷ s: | ç | x xʷ | h | |||||||||
Lateral approximant | l lʷ | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | ʍ | w | |||||||||||||
Trill | r rʷ rʲ r̥ |
Blends | rd | ld |
- allophone of /s/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e: | o: | ||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
Open | a a: |
Stress informationdisyllabic: first syllable
more than 2: penultimate if long
more than 2: third from last syllable if the penultimate syllable is short.
long syllables contain either a long vowel, a diphotongue or a consonant cluster
https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-30508289.html
more than 2: penultimate if long
more than 2: third from last syllable if the penultimate syllable is short.
long syllables contain either a long vowel, a diphotongue or a consonant cluster
https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-30508289.html
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Quenya. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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a a /a/ | á á /a:/ | c c /k/ | ch ch /x/ | é é /e:/ | e e /ɛ/ | f f /f/ | h h /h/ | hr hr /r̥/ | hw hw /xʷ/, /ʍ/ | hy hy /ç/ |
í í /i:/ | i i /i/ | l l /l/ | ld ld /ld/ | m m /m/ | mb mb /ᵐb/ | mp mp /ᵐp/ | n n /n/ | ñ ñ /ŋ/ | nc nc /ᵑk/ | nd nd /ⁿd/ |
ng ng /ᵑg/ | ngw ngw /ᵑgʷ/ | nqu nqu /ᵑkʷ/ | nt nt /ⁿt/ | nw nw /nʷ/ | ó ó /o:/ | o o /ɔ/ | p p /p/ | qu qu /kʷ/ | r r /r/ | rd rd /rd/ |
s s /s/ | ss ss /s:/ | t t /t/ | ú ú /u:/ | u u /u/ | v v /v/, /v/ | w w /w/ | y y /j/ | þ þ [θ] | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
Conscript

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