Adnaic
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In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Adnaic ("language of the west") was the language of the men of Nmenor during the Second Age.
Adnaic derived from the related Borian and Hadorian tongues — collectively called Taliska — of the Atani, and during the Second Age a Borian accent still survived in parts of Nmenor, most notably in Emeri and around the harbour of Andni. Most of the House of Bor had been killed after the Dagor Bragollach, and therefore the Hadorian accent had become most prevalent.
Adnaic seems not to have been influenced by the language of the Second House of Men, the Haladin tongue, at all: when the Nmenreans returned to Middle-earth in the Second Age, they did not recognise the peoples of Enedwaith and Minhiriath as their distant kin, because these spoke Haladin languages.
The Westron or Common Speech, widely spoken in Middle-earth during the Third Age, was largely derived from Adnaic. The Black Nmenreans of Umbar and other Nmenrean colonies spoke a related tongue during the Third Age called Black Adnaic, which was closer to the old tongue as it was not enriched with Elvish influences.eo:Aduna lingvo pl:Język adnaicki sl:Adunajčina
