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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 inhabited 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, was 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 have left the Armundic Valley around 4000 B. E. B. and migrated southward where they established 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 remained in fairly stable use for almost four millennia, until they culture was 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.

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 inhabited 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, was 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 have left the Armundic Valley around 4000 B. E. B. and migrated southward where they established 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 remained in fairly stable use for almost four millennia, until they culture was 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.

One and a half millennia after the separation of ‘Iru Ni‘i, three more subfamilies branched off what had now become Proto-Seligonian; first the [[Ruldôrians]], who migrated 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 [[HyattiPeoples|Hyatti]], who were known to be the most mystic of all peoples of Elondor and dwelled in relative peace in  

One and a half millennia after the separation of ‘Iru Ni‘i, three more subfamilies branched off what had now become Proto-Seligonian; first the [[Ruldôrians]], who migrated 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 [[HyattiPeoples|Hyatti]], who were known to be the most mystic of all peoples of Elondor and dwelled in relative peace in  

==Structure==

==Structure==

[[Category:Language Families]]

[[Category:Language Families]]