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*[http:// | * [http://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/finnish.html Texts and sound samples] at [[Glǽmscrafu]] | ||
* [http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/finn_que.htm Are High Elves Finno-Ugric?] | * [http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/finn_que.htm Are High Elves Finno-Ugric?] | ||
* [http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/finnquelinks.htm Quenya's relation to Finnish] | * [http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/finnquelinks.htm Quenya's relation to Finnish] | ||
[[Category:Finland]] | [[Category:Finland]] | ||
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Finnish is a Nordic language, and one of the few non-Indoeuropean languages spoken in Europe.
The phonotactics of the Finnish language excited J.R.R. Tolkien which he likened to "bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before" that "quite intoxicated" him.[1]
It became was the inspiration for the Elvish language which Tolkien named Qenya (later Quenya), a language designed to emulate the beauty evoked by Finnish. Other than in the field of phonotactics, a small part of the Quenya vocabulary was probably directly inspired by Finnish words, cf. Q. lapse "baby", perhaps from F. lapsi "child".
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 163, (dated 7 June 1955)
