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Fix Elvish ⟨e⟩, ⟨é⟩, ⟨ê⟩ vowels
⟨e⟩ almost certainly always represents [ɛ], not [e]. Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings describes it as the sound in English “were”, and I’m not aware of any English dialect that pronounces “were” with an [e]. In Quenya, long ⟨é⟩ (and, presumably, ⟨ê⟩) is, according to Appendix E, “tenser and ‘closer’”, which I assume means [e]. Several online sources agree with this as well. In Sindarin, Appendix E is quite clear that ⟨é⟩ has “the same quality” as ⟨e⟩, only differring from it in length: I assume this must mean that ⟨é⟩ is [ɛː] in Sindarin. The online information on this is confusing and sometimes contradictory even within the same page; several sources claim that Sindarin has an [eː], but I have not seen this claim substantiated with a source from Tolkien, and I suspect it’s simply a confusion with Quenya. It scarcely matters, anyway: Sindarin words with ⟨é⟩ or ⟨ê⟩ seem to be pretty rare. (I’m aware of a single word with an ⟨é⟩ – the name Eluréd, son of Dior – and the Omikhleia Sindarin dictionary [1] features some words with ⟨ê⟩, giving their pronunciation with [ɛː].) The [[EI]] phoneme for Sindarin ⟨ei⟩ is copied from the base2 phonemes. [1]: https://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/index.html
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@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ phoneme aI
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FMT(vdiph/ai)
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endphoneme
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phoneme EI
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vwl starttype #e endtype #i
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length 230
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FMT(vdiph/eei)
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endphoneme
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phoneme uI
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vwl starttype #u endtype #i
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length 290
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