Oromėan
Within
J.R.R. Tolkien's conception of the
languages of Middle-earth as expounded in the
Lhammas,
Oromėan is the language phylum to which all Elvish languages, such as
Quenya and
Sindarin, belong. It is there contrasted with
Aulėan, the language phylum of
Khuzdul, the language of the
Dwarves.
The Oromėan languages are so named because their ancestral language supposedly derives from the speech of Oromė, the Vala of the Forest, who was the first of the Valar to meet the Elves at Cuivienen in Middle-earth.