As I told before because of Ales' request, I have translated the section on the variants of _r_, of the article about the _r_ in Quenya that I am editing for...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jan 6, 2004 3:08 pm
A reminder to contributors about two stylistic points from the guidelines for this list (<http://www.elvish.org/LambengolmorList/>): 1) Excessive quotation:...
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Eddin Najetovic
eldin_of_cui...
Jan 6, 2004 2:20 pm
... So subtle even that the IPA does not use different symbols to spell them... though of course you are right. ... As a matter of fact I am quite certain that...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jan 6, 2004 2:14 pm
At the end of his post (589) "Re: Pronunciation and writing of _r_ in Quenya" David Kiltz wrote: "A guttural approximant or fricative might also be...
589
David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jan 6, 2004 1:54 pm
... Laurence J. Krieg provided us with an accurate transcription of recordings (made in 1952) where J.R.R. Tolkien reads, inter alia, 'Namárie' and 'A...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 6, 2004 1:51 pm
... Because I'm a dudhead, I forgot to mention you get rG > rj also in Swedish. I'm not sufficiently into the phonological development of my native language to...
587
Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 6, 2004 1:46 pm
... [snip] ... Of course. I will translate the text (I wrote it in Spanish) and then post it. But it will be in another post (it is quite long). ... Yes, so it...
586
mach
machhezan
Jan 6, 2004 1:44 pm
... Why would Feanor create a letter for a sound he didn't use? Sure, he also created letters for aspirated sounds, but I guess this was rather because these...
585
Doug Pearson
dougpearsont...
Jan 6, 2004 1:13 pm
... [snip] ... Not in "American"; English: both _h_s are voiced and sound identical. It seems strange that Tolkien, (who I assume would differentiate these...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 6, 2004 1:35 am
... **So would it surprise me. I did not want to say that it should really be a gamma but the development in QPh I mentioned last time (i.e. _r<gamma>_ ... **I...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 6, 2004 1:31 am
... **As I am very interested in these matters (indeed I have spent a lot of time thinking about Quenya phonetics and phonology recently), is it possible for...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Jan 6, 2004 1:28 am
As far as I can see, unless my memory fails me - confining my knowledge to appendices of _LotR_ - the _rómen_ is an R as pronounced in _perro_ in Castille and...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 6, 2004 1:22 am
... I'd rather expect the words to syllabify as fel.ya and u.lun.do, respectively, but the idea that the difference is due to the difference in stress might be...
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Aaron Shaw
maethorgalad
Jan 6, 2004 12:55 am
Greetings everyone :) I would like to announce the publication of a new essay regarding the syntax of Sindarin on my website I-Lam Arth. Being a co-author of...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 5, 2004 3:56 pm
... That was also the idea I wrote in my previous post. But how do you know that the "weak" _r_ did not exist in the Quenya of Aman? We know that Quenya...
578
Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 5, 2004 12:55 pm
... A fellow of the Lambenor list has already pointed that actually I am wrong, since the _r_ in those samples are always trilled (with various lengths, but...
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Edouard Kloczko
laurifindil
Jan 5, 2004 12:50 pm
... <snip> ... I read here "originally occurring in Quenya" as meaning "originally occurring in Common Eldarin (?)or/and Primitive Quendian", e.g. *not* in ...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jan 5, 2004 12:49 pm
... Perhaps because of the difference of the stress pattern? In "felga>felya" the "felg>fely" syllable is stressed, whereas in "ulgundo>ulundo" the "ulg>ul"...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 4, 2004 11:57 pm
Thank you all (specially to Ales) for your comments on the matter of rhotacism. I find them very instructive and helpful. Some time ago I started to write an...
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Darrell Martin
forbarad
Jan 4, 2004 12:54 pm
Greetings: If one wished to test a hypothesis that some invented Tolkien language I is "based on" some primary-world language P, how ought one go about it? ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jan 4, 2004 1:57 am
I have recently specified a set of standard Conventions and Abbreviations guide for the web-journal _Tengwestië_, and would like to use the same for this list...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jan 4, 2004 1:49 am
I have always supposed that the form _olor_ arose by analogy with the other cases (comp. Latin _honos_/_honor_) . This seems to me to be the most natural...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 4, 2004 1:47 am
... Well, as there's to the very best of my knowledge no (other) Q word with a gamma in it, it would rather surpise me. And _g_>_gh_>_y_ is hardly very odd. ...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Jan 4, 2004 1:38 am
The contrastive forms _olos_ and _olor_ can be explained with ease in two different ways: A) originally _olos_ gets its final _s_ voiced in position before...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 3, 2004 11:11 pm
... **I see. I took a second look on the sentence and yes, it could be read like this. I am not a native English speaker either, so my reading does not have to...
568
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 3, 2004 2:11 pm
... An obvious point, perhaps, but the change _Elerína_>_Elerrína_ could reflect a change in analysis from _el_+_rína_ to _elen_+_rína_. Andreas...
567
Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 3, 2004 3:14 am
... I see. You say it means: _s_ and _z_ are variants (one to each other) similarly as _þ_ and _ð_ are (one to each other). But I interpreted it otherwise:...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 1, 2004 7:29 pm
... In Etym, entry-head, MA3-, we see "Eld" *_mahtâ-_ derived from earlier *_ma3- tâ-_, and under WA3 we find *wahtâ and *wahsê. I would tend to interpret...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 1, 2004 3:51 pm
... **The Qenya Phonology is not, in my opinion, the best resource for researching the Quenya as conveived by Tolkien when he was writing and after he wrote...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Dec 30, 2003 6:01 pm
It is noted in LR:1097 that "[the tengwa] _áre_ was originally _áze_, but when this _z_ became merged with 21 [_óre_], the sign was in Quenya used for the...
