Quenya

Quenya (pronounced [ˈkʷɛɲa]) is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves (the Quendi, "those who speak with voices" because when they first awoke they were the only creatures they knew who used words to speak), in the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It was the language developed by the Noldor and Vanyar Elves in Valinor from an earlier language called Common Eldarin, which also evolved from the original Primitive Quendian. Of the Thr... more

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