Quenya is the J.R.R. Tolkien language strongly influenced by Finnish. Tolkien developed it as an ancient, formal Elvish language with a sound and grammatical structure inspired in part by Finnish.
Quenya belongs to Tolkien’s family of Elvish languages and is associated especially with the High Elves, including the Noldor. In the histories of Middle-earth, it became a language of lore and ceremony rather than the everyday speech of most Elves in the later ages.
Sindarin, another major Elvish language, was influenced more strongly by Welsh. Tolkien did not simply copy either real language; he constructed vocabulary, grammar, sound patterns, and historical relationships for his fictional languages.
The name Quenya is also written in Tolkien’s own scripts and appears in songs, names, and ceremonial phrases. Its use in the books is limited compared with ordinary English narration, but it is central to Tolkien’s method of building believable cultures.