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eloquentsisyphianturmoil · 4 months ago

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@dfwbwfbbwfbwf Eri has mostly said this already but I’ll try phrase it in a different way (it might help?).

Tolkien treats TY as a palatised T ( which mutates easily to CH). T->CH is the same change as S->SH, and N->Ñ (see señor). (also: there are extra Quenyan consonants that are anglicised as two Roman ones. In [TY, LY, NY, RY] -y signifies palatisation).

See, I cannot understand why the Noldor didn't just switch to Vanyarin Quenya after Thingol banned their language which leads me to the only possible conclusion that it was because it preserves the "th" and they found their inter-clan squabbles more important.

#You’ll probably feel the retraction of your palate if you practice the s to sh change and will feel the same change from T to ch #I am unfortunately an amateur linguist so tell me if this is irrelevant but I’m about to rant #But other additional consonants include hl hr hy hw gw nw cw #hl is aspirate l (unvoiced) and similar r for hr #e.g. Hroa #hy is similar to greek χ #For -w the sound is created by an excessive pout (the shape your lips make when you sound ‘w’)#through which your throat makes the consonant sounds #so quenya treats ‘qu’ as a single sound..#also Tolkien was picky about no accidental palatisation of ‘l’#all of this is crazy interesting to me #anyway #silm #linguistics #Tolkien lore #quenya

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