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==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. | 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., when the [[Western Soskish peoples|Western Sosks]] expand their territory into [[Belkondíl]], but the [[Old Besokian Abugida]] itself is never used to write Olgish, either found to impractical for the commonly clustering language or kept intentionally inaccessible by the Soskish ruling class. | ||
The first Olgish writing does not appear until a millennium later, during the [[Age of Towers]], in the form of [[Olgish runes]] carved in wood and stone. This writing system is likely based on earlier number symbols developed over the previous centuries. Among the first known inscriptions is the [[Menhir of Nambara]] of the lower [[Ilathw]], but artifacts of writing are soon found all across Belkondíl, evolving into an [[Old Olgish alphabet]] by the time of [[Enethin Lonëgir|Enethin]]. As part of his review of the language, [[Saint Fádin|Fádin]] develops [[Olgish calligraphic alphabet|his own variant]] of the alphabet optimized for writing in ink, particularly calligraphic works. This Olgish calligraphy, in part due to its use in Fádin’s [[Lonsorigi]], gains great popularity and is itself adapted into a script used for coal and stylus writing, the [[Lécaronian alphabet]], the Empire’s most widely used writing system. | |||
<!-- 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]]. | ||