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==History and classification== | ==History and classification== | ||
===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== | ||
The term ''Olgenam'', earlier ''Olginam'' derives from the Ortûlékian ethnonym ''Olgi'' ‘the skilful ones’ + ''nam'' ‘custom, way, language’, from an original root *''olg-'' ‘skilful, artful, deft’. The name was applied to one of the [[Ortûlékians|Three Peoples of Ortûlék]], ostensibly the ancestors of the [[Olgs]], beside the ''[[Géni]]'' and the ''[[Auli]]'', traditionally considered the ancestors of the [[Aribelians]] and [[Iiles]], respectively. It is used endonymically by all speakers of non-differentiated Cëlacian dialects (that being, those other than Corbian and Wertian) for their language. | The term ''Olgenam'', earlier ''Olginam'' derives from the Ortûlékian ethnonym ''Olgi'' ‘the skilful ones’ + ''nam'' ‘custom, way, language’, from an original root *''olg-'' ‘skilful, artful, deft’. The name was applied to one of the [[Ortûlékians|Three Peoples of Ortûlék]], ostensibly the ancestors of the [[Olgs]], beside the ''[[Géni]]'' and the ''[[Auli]]'', traditionally considered the ancestors of the [[Aribelians]] and [[Iiles]], respectively. It is used endonymically by all speakers of non-differentiated Cëlacian dialects (that being, those other than [[Corbian language|Corbian]] and [[Wertian language|Wertian]]) for their language. | ||
===Dating and historical scope=== | ===Dating and historical scope=== | ||
Middle Olgish is considered to progress from Old Olgish from the middle of the ninth century E.B. The first three centuries of this development, characterized by multiple waves of rapid sound change, the '''Middle Olgish Unrest''', fall under the term '''Early Middle Olgish'''. It is during this phase that [[Saint Fádin|Fádin]] updates the language of the [[Lonsorigi]], and his [[Liturgical Middle Olgish]] is a variety of this early Middle Olgish; under the prominence of Fádin’s Tongue, this stage of Middle Olgish is often as a whole grouped under the umbrella of ''Liturgical Middle Olgish'', even though only a very particular idiom is in fact used by the [[Olgish church]] and, thereafter, the [[Lécaron|Lécaronian]] bureaucracy. | Middle Olgish is considered to progress from Old Olgish from the middle of the ninth century E.B. The first three centuries of this development, characterized by multiple waves of rapid sound change, the '''Middle Olgish Unrest''', fall under the term '''Early Middle Olgish'''. It is during this phase that [[Saint Fádin|Fádin]] updates the language of the [[Lonsorigi]], and his [[Liturgical Middle Olgish]] is a variety of this early Middle Olgish; under the prominence of Fádin’s Tongue, this stage of Middle Olgish is often as a whole grouped under the umbrella of ''Liturgical Middle Olgish'', even though only a very particular idiom is in fact used by the [[Olgish church]] and, thereafter, the [[Lécaron|Lécaronian]] bureaucracy. | ||