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Common Eldarin (76 words)
	Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Common Eldarin is the primordial tongue of the Eldar, those Elves who left for Valinor.
	Common Eldarin split off Primitive Quendian, the original language of all Quendi, or Elves, when the Eldar left Cuiviénen.
	Common Eldarin led to the later languages Quenya, Telerin, Sindarin, and various Nandorin languages.

Primitive Elvish - where it all began (17611 words)
	Common Eldarin would be the language spoken by the Elves that followed Oromë and embarked on the March from Cuiviénen to the Sea, or rather the language they developed during the March.
	Common Eldarin was not an entirely uniform structure; already on the March, there were dialects.
	The Common Eldarin word rondô "vaulted roof" does not contain the ending -dô; this is the stem RONO (not in Etym) with medial fortification n > nd (VT39:9, cf.

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