 Quenya) instead.In "The Lost Road and Other Writings" it is implied that 
the Númenóreans spoke Quenya, and that Sauron, hating all things Elvish, taught the Númenóreans the old Mannish tongue they themselves had forgotten.1Adûnaic is fundamentally a three-vowel language, with a length distinction; the long and are derived from diphthongs and , as is the case in Hebrew and in most Arabic dialects, in line with the Semitic flavour that Tolkien intended for both Adûnaic and Khuzdul, which influenced it.