Parma Eldalamberon 19 : Quenya Phonology

"Quenya Phonology" consists of three interrelated texts by J. R. R. Tolkien treating the imaginary history of the sounds of his invented languages. 

The "Comparative Tables" are a series of charts laying out the regular correspondences among the sounds of the various languages he had invented by the late 1930s or conceived of as part of his history of the Elves, including Valarin, Quenya, Lindarin, Telerin, Noldorin, Ilkorin, Danian and Lemberin, as well as the Mannish language Taliskan.  There are charts for word-initial and medial consonants and consonant groups, and for long vowels and diphthongs. These are accompanied by  Tolkien’s notes on the general phonetic characteristics of the historical development of the languages, and on their phonological types in terms of the "real" languages on which they were modelled. 

The "Outline of Phonetic Development" is a detailed description of the historical changes that produced the sounds of Quenya from the sounds of Primitive Eldarin, including the regular developments in word-initial and medial positions and the distinctive changes of sounds in contact.  Phonetic variations among the historical dialects of Quenya are described, as well as those divergent developments occurring in the closely related languages of Lindarin, Telerin and Noldorin, and the influences of these on the dialects of Quenya.  The text appears to be from the late 1930s or 1940s. 

The "Outline of Phonology" is a revised and expanded version of this text, dating from the 1950s.  It describes the phonology of Quenya as primarily the speech of the Noldor in Valinor; but it is similarly arranged, giving variations within the historical dialects of Quenya and divergent developments in the related Vanyarin and Telerin. 

Edited by Christopher Gilson.

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