Melroch @ Random » dieophí http://blog.melroch.se Random ideas and thoughts of Benct Philip Jonsson Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:32:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The origin of the Borgonzay or Rhodray language http://blog.melroch.se/alternate-history/lucus/the-origin-of-the-borgonzay-or-rhodray-language/ http://blog.melroch.se/alternate-history/lucus/the-origin-of-the-borgonzay-or-rhodray-language/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:26:54 +0000 melroch http://blog.melroch.se/?p=147 The first Dieophí of moved with the whole of his Vienese court and bureaucracy to Deujó and most notably brought along all his notaries and scribes, who continued to write in , and even took in new apprentices from the area or trained apprentices from and Lojunay to write in the . Thus the language of the royal chancery became with a strong Burgundian and in particular Lojunay admixture. Each new Dieophí before his father’s death served as count of and brought with him a fresh batch of scribes, secretaries and notaries at his ascension as duke of . The move of the court to Lojú under the reign of the nth Dieophí — motivated by a desire to keep a close check on the powerful patriarch of Lojú — could only strengthen the use of this hybrid , because the Lojunay was closer to the than the dialects of proper. Inevitably however the misnomer Borgonzay ‘Burgundian’ became attached to this princely chancery language especially after the nth Dieophí decreed that all courts, and parliaments throughout his domain, and the university of Deujó must use the language of the princely chancery. The patriarchal and episcopal chanceries soon had to follow suit as well.

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