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==History== | ==History== | ||
The story of the Ortûlékian languages begins in the late Neolithic in the vast moorlands of Belkondíl. Belkondíl, the name itself a modern Olgish form of an ancient word, refers to two of the country’s landmarks the most entwined with human history. It means ‘the land between the rivers’, those rivers being the Brethan in the west, originating in the rocky highlands of Lemmi-Dirith and winding southwest through a broad river valley before coming apart into the thousand arms of the Brethan Delta; and the Cëlac, crossing the country in the east and feeding the White Sea at its estuary. It was the latter that the early Ortûlékians sought out. They had survived the last glacial maximum in the refuges beneath the highlands hemming its course; now, as the cultivation of millet and barley and the herding of cattle had become their sources of livelihood, they moved south into the plain of Ortûlék, a softly undulating moorland, rough to cultivate, but offering lush space for their settlements and herds.<br> | The story of the Ortûlékian languages begins in the late Neolithic in the vast moorlands of Belkondíl. Belkondíl, the name itself a modern Olgish form of an ancient word, refers to two of the country’s landmarks the most entwined with human history. It means ‘the land between the rivers’, those rivers being the Brethan in the west, originating in the rocky highlands of Lemmi-Dirith and winding southwest through a broad river valley before coming apart into the thousand arms of the Brethan Delta; and the Cëlac, crossing the country in the east and feeding the White Sea at its estuary. It was the latter that the early Ortûlékians sought out. They had survived the last glacial maximum in the refuges beneath the highlands hemming its course; now, as the cultivation of millet and barley and the herding of cattle had become their sources of livelihood, they moved south into the plain of Ortûlék, a softly undulating moorland, rough to cultivate, but offering lush space for their settlements and herds.<br> | ||