Golgic Languages
The Golgic (Goal-geek) languages are a language family within the Sulean Archipelago. The Golgic Language family is divided into Two branches or sub-families, that is, Sua and Lukon.
Golgic Languages | |
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Region Spoken | Sulean Archipelago |
Speakers | est. 450 Thousand |
Proto-Language | Proto-Golgic |
Subdivisions | Sua Lukon |
the family is characterized by shared phonological, morphological, and syntactic traits, including an agglutinative word formation and a preference for verb-final word order. It is spoken by several ethnolinguistic groups collectively known as the Golgic/Chatan peoples, whose presence in the region is believed to date back to Chatan. the family is typically divided into Sua and Lukon, with considerable variation in mutual intelligibility. The languages are central to the region’s cultural identity and historical development, and some, like Sulean, have served as important literary and administrative languages for local polities.