Difference between revisions of "On the Relationship between Olgish and Soskish Culture"

Their very foundation laid upon this mediating nation, it does hardly come as a surprise that when conversation was required between the native populations of these lands and their foreign occupants, it was most often conducted not in Olgish but in Soskish, and especially the Seligonian kingdoms were known to have early on adopted this lingua franca as their main, and eventually only, spoken language. So while none of their kingdoms persisted, the Belkondílian realms of the Western Sosks falling to the Olgs long before the dawn of history, Oakshire and the Thárian lands eventually subsumed by the lords of Nerrid, and Môredh, after the death of Ul-Gâmekh and the Sacking of Arekh, overrun by the Mikoshi, the Sosks persisted as a driving cultural and social force throughout the history of Elondor. The dialects descended from the language of the Western Sosks were spoken by the lower classes of almost all Olgish-ruled countries and, later, provinces, save the west of Belkondíl, where the Olgs were still the demographic majority; and by the time Ésôrin the Wise declares Soskish the official language of Lécaron, all but the population of those areas, the oldest houses of nobility, and the clergy of both churches of the Olgish faith had accepted Soskish as their everyday language, explaining the fast success of this decree and the almost seamless conversion from a nationalist Olgish to a Soskish-speaking Empire.

Their very foundation laid upon this mediating nation, it does hardly come as a surprise that when conversation was required between the native populations of these lands and their foreign occupants, it was most often conducted not in Olgish but in Soskish, and especially the Seligonian kingdoms were known to have early on adopted this lingua franca as their main, and eventually only, spoken language. So while none of their kingdoms persisted, the Belkondílian realms of the Western Sosks falling to the Olgs long before the dawn of history, Oakshire and the Thárian lands eventually subsumed by the lords of Nerrid, and Môredh, after the death of Ul-Gâmekh and the Sacking of Arekh, overrun by the Mikoshi, the Sosks persisted as a driving cultural and social force throughout the history of Elondor. The dialects descended from the language of the Western Sosks were spoken by the lower classes of almost all Olgish-ruled countries and, later, provinces, save the west of Belkondíl, where the Olgs were still the demographic majority; and by the time Ésôrin the Wise declares Soskish the official language of Lécaron, all but the population of those areas, the oldest houses of nobility, and the clergy of both churches of the Olgish faith had accepted Soskish as their everyday language, explaining the fast success of this decree and the almost seamless conversion from a nationalist Olgish to a Soskish-speaking Empire.