Doriathrin
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In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Doriathrin is an extinct dialect of the conlang Sindarin.
The Sindar of Beleriand were divided in several groups, and their language had several dialects. Doriathrin, the flavour of Sindarin spoken by the Sindar of Doriath, the heart region of Beleriand, was seen as an archaic variant of Sindarin, contrasting with the more common dialect Falathrin. Doriathrin and Falathrin were mutually intelligible without problems.
Doriathrin preserved many archaic features which had been lost in Falathrin, and was seen by the Sindar of Doriath as a more noble form of it. Unlike the other dialects Doriathrin remained free from Quenya influences. However this dialect was also quite recognisable, so that even after Túrin had left Doriath he kept a Doriathrin accent until his death, which immediately pinpointed his origin to speakers of other variants of Sindarin.
Doriathrin became extinct at the end of the First Age after Beleriand was destroyed, although some of the oldest written material preserved in Númenor was written in this dialect, likely taken by refugees from Doriath to Arvernien, and from there to Númenor.
Little about Dorithrin morphology, and how it contrasts with other Sindarin variants, is known. One interesting feature is the use of the suffix -a for a genitive case, while most variants of Sindarin simply place two words beside each other for the same effect.
