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==Structure== | ==Structure== | ||
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 [[Proto-Ortûlékian language|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 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. | 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 languages|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 language|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. | 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 language|Wertian]] and [[Lécaronian Olgish|Lécaronian]]. | ||
==Writing system== | ==Writing system== | ||
A variety of scripts have been used to write the Olgish languages. The Olgs likely first came into contact with writing in the late 3rd millennium B.E.B. | |||
<!-- The eponymous and central language of this branch was called '''Eastern Olgish''', '''Cëlacian Olgish''', or simply '''Olgish''', and spoken from the 14th century B.E.B. in central Belkondíl. It was the main language of the Olgs for most of classical Olgish history, culminating in the collection and canonization of the [[Lonsorigi]] in a [[Old Olgish|Late Old Olgish]] idiom in the 6th century E.B. Subsequently, '''[[Middle Olgish]]''' became the main administrative language of the [[Lécaronian Empire]] and the [[Olgish religion|Olgish churches]]; it was never spoken my the majority population outside of Belkondíl, however, who either clung to their native languages or had adopted a variety of [[Soskish Language|Soskish]] during earlier contact, and in 540 L.R., Emperor [[Esôrin the Wise]] officially declared [[Lécaronian Soskish]] the main language of his Empire, leading to oblivion and eventual extinction of Cëlacian Olgish. The variety of Middle Olgish used in St. Fádin's translation of the Lonsorigi, often called '''Liturgical Middle Olgish''', has remained in common use in the Olgish churches both in Belkondíl and in [[Seligon]]. | <!-- The eponymous and central language of this branch was called '''Eastern Olgish''', '''Cëlacian Olgish''', or simply '''Olgish''', and spoken from the 14th century B.E.B. in central Belkondíl. It was the main language of the Olgs for most of classical Olgish history, culminating in the collection and canonization of the [[Lonsorigi]] in a [[Old Olgish|Late Old Olgish]] idiom in the 6th century E.B. Subsequently, '''[[Middle Olgish]]''' became the main administrative language of the [[Lécaronian Empire]] and the [[Olgish religion|Olgish churches]]; it was never spoken my the majority population outside of Belkondíl, however, who either clung to their native languages or had adopted a variety of [[Soskish Language|Soskish]] during earlier contact, and in 540 L.R., Emperor [[Esôrin the Wise]] officially declared [[Lécaronian Soskish]] the main language of his Empire, leading to oblivion and eventual extinction of Cëlacian Olgish. The variety of Middle Olgish used in St. Fádin's translation of the Lonsorigi, often called '''Liturgical Middle Olgish''', has remained in common use in the Olgish churches both in Belkondíl and in [[Seligon]]. | ||