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"etymology_text": "Developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. From tengwar, the term Tolkien invented to represent the glyphs found in Tengwar. From tengwa, the singular of \"tengwar\", a single glyph.",
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"ref": "1969, Leland Sapiro, editor, Riverside Quarterly, volume 4, page 75",
"text": "He's now trying to arrange for a type font set in the Tengwar alphabet",
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"ref": "2012, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, page 311",
"text": "For example, Unicode hasn't yet incorporated Tengwar (an elvish script) into its official repertoire (although it's on the roadmap—there are, after all, many maps of Middle Earth).",
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"ref": "2013, Simon Horobin, Does Spelling Matter?, page 36",
"text": "An innovative feature of the Tengwar is that the shapes of the individual letters were designed to record phonetic features",
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"ref": "2016 January 20, Anna Sorokina, “Want to translate from English to Elvish? Yandex can help”, in Russia Beyond",
"text": "The translator uses the Tengwar script to display Sindarin.",
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"ref": "2019 September 13, Bettina Beinhoff, “Want to build a language from scratch? Start with the question who will speak it, and why”, in Scroll.in",
"text": "The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in JRR Tolkien’s Tengwar script (transcribed from English).",
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"ref": "2020 November 9, Eric Mack, “Next US military spy satellite launch has inexplicable Lord of the Rings theme”, in cNet",
"text": "The poster for the mission, which is officially called NROL-101, sports a pretty clear Lord of the Rings theme, featuring a pair of interlocking golden rings and the phrase \"goodness persists\" written in both English and Elvish Tengwar script, the fictional language dreamed up entirely by author J.R.R. Tolkien himself.",
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"A constructed script created by J. R. R. Tolkien for his invented Elvish constructed languages of Sindarin (ISO 639 code sjn) and Quenya (ISO 639 code qya)."
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"word": "Tengvaro"
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"word": "تنگوار"
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"word": "テングワール"
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"roman": "tenggwareu",
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"word": "텡과르"
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},
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"ref": "2016 January 20, Anna Sorokina, “Want to translate from English to Elvish? Yandex can help”, in Russia Beyond",
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},
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"ref": "2019 September 13, Bettina Beinhoff, “Want to build a language from scratch? Start with the question who will speak it, and why”, in Scroll.in",
"text": "The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in JRR Tolkien’s Tengwar script (transcribed from English).",
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"ref": "2020 November 9, Eric Mack, “Next US military spy satellite launch has inexplicable Lord of the Rings theme”, in cNet",
"text": "The poster for the mission, which is officially called NROL-101, sports a pretty clear Lord of the Rings theme, featuring a pair of interlocking golden rings and the phrase \"goodness persists\" written in both English and Elvish Tengwar script, the fictional language dreamed up entirely by author J.R.R. Tolkien himself.",
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"word": "تنگوار"
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"word": "Tengwar"
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"word": "テングワール"
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"word": "텡과르"
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