Middle High Elven language

Middle High Elven was the direct predecessor of the current stage of the High Elven language, and also was the successor to both Vulgar High Elven and Classical High Elven in the respect that it was spoken by commoners and nobility alike.

The language had sported an impressive section of secular literature, while religious works continued to be written in Classical High Elven, and continue to be written even to this day.

Consonants

 * The clusters coalesced into new palatal consonants
 * The palatal allophones of - which were previously pronounced as,  or  - also shifted to
 * In other +  clusters, the  was stretched into a full vowel  (see in Vowels)
 * Reintroduction of the glide by shifting word-initial, , and  to  when followed by another vowel.
 * was reduced to if a vowel was following the sequence. This way, the Classical High Elven  and  became  in Middle High Elven.
 * Shift of the velar-alveolar clusters to geminated palatal
 * Word-initial got affricated to
 * Intervocalic became silent (except in a few names), leading to the creation of new vowel clusters (most of which got turned into rising diphthongs later). For example:

Vowels

 * Vowel clusters such as, and  collapsed into the rising diphthong.
 * Vowel clusters such as and  collapsed into the rising diphthong.
 * The vowel cluster collapsed into the rising diphthong.
 * Vowel clusters such as, and  collapsed into the rising diphthong.
 * Vowel clusters such as and  collapsed into the rising diphthong.
 * The vowel cluster collapsed into the rising diphthong.
 * In the clusters, was stretched into a full vowel
 * The original vowel length distinction was lost and replaced by a system in which vowels are long in open syllables, short in close syllables (if followed by a consonant cluster or a geminated consonant).