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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. | 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. | 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, leading to its use as a universal Olgish lingua franca in most Olgish-speaking areas and its significant influence on the development of the Old Olgish dialects. Only two regions retain an ancestral dialect as their main language, avoiding Koiné influence and establishing what are thereafter treated as separate Olgish languages: The [[Corbian language]] in the wealthy [[Kingdom of Corbin]] and the [[Wertian language]] in the independent [[Wertian Kingdom]] on the Geranian Heath. | ||
Saint Fádin > Liturgical Middle Olgish | |||
> but dialects develop on: spoken Middle Olgish | |||
Lécaronian Olgish (New Olgish) > use in the early empire, extinction | |||
==Structure== | ==Structure== | ||
> Pecularities | |||
> Differences to Ortûlékian | |||
> Important internal differences | |||
==Writing system== | |||