Quenya is J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional Elvish language whose name is associated with “high-elven.”
Tolkien developed Quenya as part of his extensive language-making, drawing much of its structure and sound from Finnish while also using ideas from other languages. In his mythology, Quenya was associated especially with the High Elves and remained a prestigious, literary language in later ages.
Quenya is often confused with Sindarin, another major Elvish language in Tolkien’s legendarium. Sindarin became the everyday language of many Elves in Middle-earth, while Quenya had an older and more ceremonial status. Tolkien revised his invented languages repeatedly, so descriptions of their grammar and history can vary across his notes and posthumously published writings.