Lesson 15: Nasal Mutation
What Is Nasal Mutation? Nasal mutation is the second of Sindarin's three main initial consonant mutation systems (the others being soft mutation and mixed/stop mutation). It is triggered by a preceding nasal consonant — the n of certain grammatical words causes the following initial consonant to shift in a nasal direction. Historically, Old Sindarin had nasal consonants at the end of certain grammatical words (the plural definite article, the dative...