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==History== | ==History== | ||
The history of the Seligonian languages reaches further back in time than that of their neighbouring families, except perhaps for that of Avalian. It can be presumed that the ancestors of the later Seligonians already | The history of the Seligonian languages reaches further back in time than that of their neighbouring families, except perhaps for that of Avalian. It can be presumed that the ancestors of the later Seligonians already inhabit an area central to Seligon, the [[Armundic Valley]] east of the [[Ruah|Ruah Mountains]]. The language tentatively called Early Proto-Seligonian, or alternatively Primitive Proto-Seligonian or Proto-Macro-Seligonian, is spoken in the late Neolithic; it is the direct ancestor to only one sub-branch of Seligonian, the languages of the [[‘Iru Ni‘i]], who seem to leave the Armundic Valley around 4000 B.E.B. and migrate southward, where they establish several chiefdoms on the [[Great Islands of Seligon|Great Islands]] of [[Jallan]], [[Ancarion]], [[Edessa]], and [[Asarok]], and finally a [[Kingdom of the ‘Iru Ni‘i|kingdom]] spanning them all. Their languages remain in fairly stable use for almost four millennia, until their culture is first diminished under the [[Fenedic Empire]] and finally destroyed after the [[Olgish Conquest of Seligon]]. As with the majority of Seligon’s languages, many ‘Iru words and phrases remain in everyday use as substrate in the local dialect of [[Soskish Language|Soskish]]. | ||
One and a half millennia after the separation of ‘Iru Ni‘i, | |||
One and a half millennia after the separation of ‘Iru Ni‘i, four more subfamilies branch off what has now become Proto-Seligonian; first the [[Ruldôrians]], who migrate east, founding the cities of [[Urukash]] and [[Olksûr]], defeating the [[Nokimi]] and conquering their states, and establishing some of the greater empires of the Middle Bronze Age; second the [[Hyatti Peoples|Hyatti]], who are known to be the most mystic of all peoples of Elondor and dwell in relative peace (safe for a few incursions into Hakessian space by their own hand towards the end of the Bronze Age) in their kingdoms in the north; third the [[Armundians]], who migrate south, founding [[Serdon]] and [[Tinaris]] and become one of the most revered high cultures of Seligon, in their age and significance second perhaps only to Abreshahar of the Dasmil; and, lastly, the Hakessians, who at first remain in the Armundic Valley and the lands to its west, where they fight many long wars with the Avalians, but in the 14th century B.E.B. make an invention that will forever change the battlefields of Seligon and make them superior to any foe until the arrival of the Olgs and their feared cavalry: the chariot. As if flying on their wheels, they quickly expand west, south, and east, defeating first the Ukkari and then the Armundians, and finally also the Ruldôrians, and founding new, Hakessian kingdoms on their sites. | |||
For the latter half of the Bronze Age, more than half of Seligon is under Hakessian rule, and with their rapid expansion, their dialects have likewise split into three branches, Northern Hakessian in Ukkar and the Armundic Valley, Eastern Hakessian in Urukash, Olksûr, and Ruldôr, and Western Hakessian in Serdone and Dūda. | |||
==Structure== | ==Structure== | ||
[[Category:Language Families]][[Category:Incomplete Articles]] | [[Category:Language Families]][[Category:Incomplete Articles]] | ||