Taliska

Taliska is a constructed language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is one of the many fictional languages set in his secondary world, often called Middle-earth.

Taliska was based on the Gothic language. Gothic was an early interest of Tolkien. A grammar and a lexicon of Taliska are known to exist, but as of 2011 they have not been published.

In Middle-earth, Taliska, when first devised, was the language spoken by Men of the houses of Bëor and Hador.

Adûnaic, the language of Númenor, later displaced Taliska. During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

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Westron - Fictional History
... entered Beleriand in the First Age, they spoke two different languages, of which Taliska was the predecessor of Adûnaic ... the House of Haleth spoke Haladin, while the House of Bëor and House of Hador both spoke Taliska ... The Bëorian dialect of Taliska was slightly different from the Hadorian dialect (though not an outright separate language), but in any case, the House of Bëor was practically destroyed after the ...
Adûnaic - Fictional History
... Adûnaic derived from the closely related Bëorian and Hadorian dialects of Taliska, the language spoken by the first and third houses of the Edain when they first entered Beleriand during ... probably very little (it is stated that Felagund was able to quickly master Taliska purely by determining the various changes undergone by its Avarin component from Primitive ... By the end of the First Age, Taliska had developed into a language that served as the basis for Adûnaic, the vernacular tongue of the Númenóreans, as well as the ...