Registers
Quenya has a variety of language registers:
- Parmaquesta ("Book-language"): the literary style in which the Elven-scriptures, the "Ainulindalë", and other classical Elvish works were written.
- Tarquesta ("high-language"): the vernacular speech with two dialects: Vanyarin Quenya and Noldorin Quenya.
- Exilic Quenya or "Low Quenya": the spoken style of the Exiled Noldor in Middle-earth.
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