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Post by ion on Aug 20, 2015 4:34:57 GMT
Hey, I am totally new to this but i felt like getting into it after i started looking it up. what are real life languages that most closely resemble Sindarin???
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Post by xandarien on Aug 22, 2015 14:24:36 GMT
The simplest answer is Welsh. It borrows some of the grammar, and some of the vocabulary bears more than a passing resemblance  . |
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Post by ion on Sept 19, 2015 5:57:32 GMT
hmmmmm. interesting. i looked at some websites liking elvish and toluene and all that and they said that quenya closely resembled latin and sindarin closely resembled gaelic. they gave a couple of other languages but those are the ones i remember. so if someone was gonna add vocabulary to sindarin they should probably take it from a welsh dictionary and it would fall into place nicely?  |
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Post by xandarien on Sept 19, 2015 8:07:15 GMT
Quenya is often referred to as 'Elf Latin', but it resembles Finnish in its design. 'Gaelic' is an umbrella term for the group of languages spoken here that includes Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx and Cornish. Welsh isn't actually a Gaelic language, it comes from a different branch of Celtic called Brythonic... it's a common mistake I see a lot though.
There is of course the well known Black Speech nazg = ring which resembles the Scots/Irish word nasg = ring but Tolkien stated himself this was a faux amis and entirely unintentional.
As far as your second question goes, certainly not!! When we reconstruct vocabulary for Sindarin we do it in a variety of ways, but using Welsh vocabulary isn't (and shouldn't be) one of them. Firstly we have what we call the 'roots', which Tolkien developed, e.g. the root NAR produced naur = flame, Anor = sun, and so on. Then there's a myriad of ways such as using an attested word but putting a different ending on it, changing a Quenya word into a Sindarin word, and so on.
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