Re: New Brithenig words, part Deux.

On Sun, 27 May 2001, BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> At 17:18 2001-05-26 +0000, kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET wrote:
>> BTW if you put Quenya through the GMP as someone has suggested, won't you
>> end up with Sindarin?
> Not really, since Sindarin is not descended directly from Quenya, but both
> from Common Eldarin.
> JRRT did his stuff very thoroughly!
Indeed he did, the changes from Proto-Eldarin to Sindarin almost exactly
parallel those from British/Latin to Welsh. However the modifications
needed to get from Pr. E. to Quenya are rather few, shortening of unstressed
long vowels and loss of most voiced stops to give the language a more
Finnish look (/b/ >> /w/ >> /v/; /d/ >> /l/; /g/ >> /null/?), plus a few
minor changes. So putting Q. through the GMP should produce something quite
like Sindarin although not identical. The results should be quite instructive.

Keith