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While perserving much of the ancestral Ortûlékian vocabulary, Olgish grammar differs greatly from that of its sister languages. The complex Proto-Ortûlékian verbal morphology is truncated heavily, and by the time of classical Old Olgish, nearly all feature coding has moved from the head to the dependant. The Olgish languages retain, on the other hand, the hallmark ‘Ortûlékian lax affixes’, referring to a tendency of all or most affixes in Ortûlékian languages to allow attachment to all or most word classes, often with slightly different meanings depending on host class. | While perserving much of the ancestral Ortûlékian vocabulary, Olgish grammar differs greatly from that of its sister languages. The complex Proto-Ortûlékian verbal morphology is truncated heavily, and by the time of classical Old Olgish, nearly all feature coding has moved from the head to the dependant. The Olgish languages retain, on the other hand, the hallmark ‘Ortûlékian lax affixes’, referring to a tendency of all or most affixes in Ortûlékian languages to allow attachment to all or most word classes, often with slightly different meanings depending on host class. | ||
A morphological number coding system seems to have been absent in Proto-Ortûlékian, or, if present, at least highly irregular and incoherent. Like Aribelian-Celdic, the Olgish languages | A morphological number coding system seems to have been absent in Proto-Ortûlékian, or, if present, at least highly irregular and incoherent. Like Aribelian-Celdic, the Olgish languages evolve their own forms plural expression based on a large set of affixes, simple but varied ablaut pairs, and other, irregular form changes. While the coding strategies observed are starkly similar to those in Old Aribelian, they are applied independently, and few Olgish-Aribelian cognates share plural forms, further supporting the notion that Aribelian and Olgish are somewhat more closely related to each other than they are to Aulish, possibly innovating the morphological principles underlying plural coding together but not implementing it until the dialects had fully separated. | ||
These highly idiosyncratic plurals are stubbornly preserved in both great formal varieties of Olgish, the Old Olgish Koiné and Liturgical Middle Olgish, but undergo a significant degree of regularization in most spoken varieties of Olgish, in particular Wertian and Lécaronian. | |||
==Writing system== | ==Writing system== | ||