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Golgic Languages

From Nezopedia


The Golgic (Goal-geek) languages [ɣʲoŋɣol-ɣɯik] 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
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.

Evolution

Proto-Golgic