Difference between revisions of "Olgish languages"

For most of the Bronze Age, Belkondíl lacks a unified power, and the [[Old Olgish#Dialects|Old Olgish dialects]] develop fairly freely, intermixing with each other and local languages as the Olgish domain [[Olgish Expansion|expands]] into [[Geran]] and the [[Reknaya]]. The need for a common high tongue only arises when [[Enethin of Ortûlék|Enethin]] restores the [[Kingdom of Belkondíl]] at the end of the Bronze Age, uniting most of the old Olgish counties. Enethin’s centralistic policies as well as the compilation of the [[Book of Belkondíl]] to evidence his claim to the throne give rise to an [[Old Olgish Koiné]], based chiefly on the influential dialects of [[Ortûlék]], [[Lágon]], and [[Soskilón]] but incorporating elements of most other varieties of Olgish.

This idiom remains the language of court and cult, as well as the very definition of an ‘Olgish language’, for most of the early Iron Age. The [[Lonsorigi]] are composed and disseminated in this language, so are all royal decrees and diplomatic messages.