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Old English ( Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ] ), or Anglo-Saxon, [1] is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
The Old English language, often called Anglo-Saxon, was spoken in Anglo-Saxon England from 450 AD to 1100 AD. It was spoken by the Anglo-Saxons , who came to Great Britain from what is now Germany and Denmark .
The Old English period is considered to have evolved into the Middle English period some time after the Norman conquest of 1066, when the language came to be influenced significantly by the new ruling class's language, Old Norman.
(February 2021) The grammar of Old English is quite different from that of Modern English, predominantly by being much more inflected.
- Me pleases the snow because he does the city quiet.
- I like the snow because it makes the city quiet.
- Mē līcaþ sē snāw for þon þe hē dēþ þā burg stille.
Old English is essentially a distinct language from Modern English and is virtually impossible for 21st-century unstudied English-speakers to understand. Its grammar was similar to that of modern German : nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs had many more inflectional endings and forms , and word order was much freer than in Modern English.
- Manually coded English, (multiple systems)
Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England.
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.
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