Taliska
Taliska is a constructed language devised by fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It is one of the many fictional languages set in his secondary world, commonly known as Middle-earth, as part of the Lord of the Rings universe.
Taliska was based on the Gothic language. Gothic was an early interest of Tolkien. A 272 manuscript-page historical grammar of Taliska is known to exist, but it has not been published. Carl Hostetter has noted that the grammar contains a considerable amount of vocabulary, not all of which is glossed. Hostetter extracted and compiled these words into a Taliska Dictionary which he presented at ELFcon III in 1993.
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 notionally translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.
Taliska was based on the Gothic language. Gothic was an early interest of Tolkien. A 272 manuscript-page historical grammar of Taliska is known to exist, but it has not been published. Carl Hostetter has noted that the grammar contains a considerable amount of vocabulary, not all of which is glossed. Hostetter extracted and compiled these words into a Taliska Dictionary which he presented at ELFcon III in 1993.
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 notionally translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.
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