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).

Vowels

 * The original vowel length distinction was lost and replaced by a system of allophony in which vowels are long in open syllables (or closed syllables with only one coda consonant), short in close syllables (if followed by a consonant cluster or a geminated consonant).
 * The loss of intervocalic reintroduces  vowel clusters of all kind. However, all of them get simplified into dipthongs or long vowels.
 * In the clusters, was stretched into a full vowel

Vowels

 * The language also had diphthongs:, , , , , , , , and.