Quenya
fictional language from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium
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Summary
Quenya is a fictional language[1]. Quenya draws 4,276 Wikipedia views per month (fictional language category, ranking #4 of 24).[2]
Key Facts
- Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien[3]
- Instance of: Elvish[4]
- Writing system: Sarati[5], Tengwar[6], Latin script[7], Cirth[8]
- Commons category: Middle-earth writing systems[9]
- Wikimedia language code: qya[10]
- Has part(s): Quenya grammar[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Quenya[12]
- Inspired by: Finnish[13]
- Described at URL: https://cals.info/language/quenya/[14], https://database.conlang.org/view/?conlang=508[15], http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/index.php?page=languages&id=372[16], https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Quenya[17]
- From narrative universe: Tolkien's legendarium[18]
- Present in work: The Silmarillion[19]
- Has phoneme: voiced bilabial plosive[20], voiceless bilabial plosive[21], voiceless dental stop[22], voiced dental stop[23], voiced velar stop[24], voiceless velar stop[25], voiceless labiodental fricative[26], voiced labiodental fricative[27], voiceless alveolar fricative[28], voiceless palatal fricative[29], voiceless velar fricative[30], voiceless glottal fricative[31], voiced bilabial nasal[32], voiced alveolar nasal[33]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/QYA[34], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Quenya[35]
- Has grammatical case: respective case[36], proprietive case[37]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[38], agglutinative language[39]
Why It Matters
Quenya has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] Quenya is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]