North Sindarin
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North Sindarin is an extinct dialect of the conlang Sindarin.
Within the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien's the Silmarillion, the Sindar of Beleriand were divided in several groups, and their language had developed some dialects. North Sindarin, the flavour of Sindarin spoken by the Mithrim, the northernmost group of the Sindar, differed from the Sindarin of Beleriand proper in many aspects. It was this language which was adopted by the exiled Ņoldor after their return to Middle-earth, and by their human allies. During this time North Sindarin was changed much, partially due to the adoption of Quenya features, and partially due to the love of the Ņoldor for making linguistic changes. Beren's heritage was clear to Thingol of Doriath as he spoke the North Sindarin of his homeland.
North Sindarin retained many features of Archaic Sindarin which had been lost in the Sindarin of Beleriand proper, but also went through several changes of its own: lenition occurred far less in this dialect than in the other dialects.
After the end of the First Age the survivors of Beleriand's realms generally adopted the more southern variants of Sindarin, but several proper names which are uninterpretable in normal Sindarin which remained in use during the Third Age show North Sindarin influence.
Outside the fiction, it has been postulated by Tolkienists such as David Salo that North Sindarin adopted many of the features of the "lost" Tolkien language Ilkorin, which did not survive the major changes in Tolkien's linguistic fiction that started with the change of the primitive Noldorin language into Sindarin.
Polish scholar Ryszard Derdzinski (http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/biography.htm) has on his website (http://www.elvish.org/gwaith) compiled an extensive article (http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/pdf/nsindarin.pdf) about the differences of 'normal' (i.e. Falathrin) Sindarin and its northern dialect in PDF format. By this the learner can observe how a text in North Sindarin (http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/north_sindarin.htm) may be like (Narn Fingolfin by German scholar Florian Dombach (http://www.sindarin.de)).