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- As such, in the 11th century, Old Norse was the most widely-spoken European language.
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Jul 12, 2020 · Christianity was adopted by King Stephen at the very beginning of the 11th century. After that the language used in official documents is Latin for internal needs and relations with the Pope and the Catholic powers, but possibly Greek might have been used in relation with the Byzantines.
Starting our history of the Early English language, known as Anglo-Saxon, prior to William’s Norman Conquest, we know that the Saxons’ language grew out of the various north German languages spoken by the pre-Conquest invaders from the Continent: the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Friesians.
Old English (Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary works ...
From the 11th century until the 14th century, the courts used three languages: Latin for writing, French as the main oral language during trials, and English in less formal exchanges between the judge, the lawyer, the complainant or the witnesses.
Oct 16, 2016 · The Norman French became the language of government in England as a result of the Conquest, when Anglo-Normans replaced the native English nobility, according to Algeo and Pyles. As a result of the Conquest, the influence of French on the English language was clear with many French words replacing English vocabulary.
Beginning in the Levant around the 11th century BC, Phoenicia became an early trading state and colonizing power, spreading its language to what is now Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco as well as southern Spain, the Balearic Islands, coastal areas of Sardinia and Corsica as well as the island of Cyprus.
The principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia were Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian (together sometimes known as 'Akkadian'), Amorite, and - later - Aramaic. They have come down to us in the "cuneiform" (i.e. wedge-shaped) script, deciphered by Henry Rawlinson and other scholars in the 1850s.
