Cast of a Neo-Hittite relief, dating to the 10th Century BC. Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words ...
One such example is the Elvish languages created by Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien. Before writing his novels and making his characters speak, Tolkien – a trained linguist – ...