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Re: "Common" Tongues

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, February 22, 2003, 17:24
On Saturday 22 February 2003 5:19 pm, John M. Dollan wrote:
> Wasn't it also called Westernesse? It's been a while since I've read > Tolkien...
Westernesse is the English word, Numenor is the Elvish(I forget whether it was Quenya or Sindarin)
> ...John... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...> > To: <CONLANG@...> > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:05 AM > Subject: Re: "Common" Tongues > > > It would astonish me if this use of "Common" weren't drawn from JRRT's > > "Common Speech", which indeed was a trade-tongue in origin, though > > decreolized > > > when adopted by the Numenorians in exile.