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Old English is a West Germanic language, and developed out of Ingvaeonic (also known as North Sea Germanic) dialects from the 5th century. It came to be spoken over most of the territory of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which became the Kingdom of England.
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- History of English
The Normans spoke a dialect of Old French, and the...
- Old English Literature
Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse)...
- Mercian
Mercian was a dialect spoken in the Anglian kingdom of...
- Old English Phonology
Old English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative...
- Old English Version of Wikipedia
1587 – Englisc gūþ ƿiþ Ispanie: In Gaðesbyhte ongann Francis...
- Northumbrian
Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the...
- Old English Grammar
The grammar of Old English differs considerably from Modern...
- Ingvaeonic
North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic (/ ˌ ɪ ŋ v iː ˈ...
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French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that evolved out of the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken in northern France. The language's early forms include Old French and Middle French .
- Signed French, (français signé)
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Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse.
- Evolved into Middle French by the 14th century
e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
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Mar 28, 2024 · Old English language, language spoken and written in England before 1100; it is the ancestor of Middle English and Modern English. Scholars place Old English in the Anglo-Frisian group of West Germanic languages.
Only some of the changes are reflected in the orthography, which generally corresponds to the pronunciation of c. 1100–1200 CE (the Old French period) rather than modern pronunciation. This page documents the phonological history of French from a relatively technical standpoint.