Tolkien Gateway  Old Sindarin  Revision as of 19:23, 14 December
2010 by Mithbot (Talk | contribs)  Old Sindarin is the
hypothetical name for the earliest form of the Sindarin
language, gradually mutated from Common Telerin.   The stage of
"Old Sindarin" refers to a period where the Sindarin words had
not undergone lenitions of their consonants, nor affections of
vowels by i or a, nor apocope of final vowels. The first changes
that already occurred in Old Sindarin, which made it
differentiate from Common Telerin, was the aspiration in some
sounds; this can be seen in Telerin alpa but OS alpha > S. alph.
Further changes followed in the process of time.  This language
was spoken in Middle-earth during or after the Great March,
perhaps by the Eglath. However when the Noldor returned to
Beleriand at the rising of the Moon, the language had already
fully evolved into Sindarin.  It is possible that Old Sindarin
was the common ancestor of Mithrimin, Falathrim and Doriathrin.
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