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    Old EnglishForm of the English language
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    RegionEngland (except Cornwall and the extreme north-west), southern and eastern Scotland, and some localities in the eastern fringes of modern Wales
    EthnicityAnglo-Saxons
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    Old English Script: A Medieval Style of Writing
    Old English Script: A Medieval Style of Writing
    Old English script is a style of writing that originated in the Middle Ages. It is also known as Blackletter or medieval calligraphy. It has a distinctive and ornate appearance that evokes a sense of history and mystery.
    Etymology

    Englisċ, from which the word English is derived, means 'pertaining to the Angles'. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes who settled in many parts of Britain in the 5th century. By the 9th century, all speakers o… See more

    History

    Old English was not static, and its usage covered a period of 700 years, from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century to the late 11th century, some time after the Norman Conquest. While indicating that the est… See more

    Old English language | History, Characteristics, Examples, & Facts ...
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    Dialects

    Just as Modern English is not monolithic, Old English varied according to place. Despite the diversity of language of the Germanic-speaking migrants who established Old English in England and southeaste… See more

    Influence of other languages

    The language of the Anglo-Saxon settlers appears not to have been significantly affected by the native British Celtic languages which it largely displaced. The number of Celtic loanwords introduced into the langua… See more

    Phonology

    The inventory of Early West Saxon surface phones is as follows:
    The sounds enclosed in parentheses in the chart above are not considered to be phonemes:
    • [dʒ] … See more

    Grammar

    Nouns decline for five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental; three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter; and two numbers: singular, and plural; and are strong or weak. The instrumental is vestigial an… See more

    Orthography

    Old English was first written in runes, using the futhorc – a rune set derived from the Germanic 24-character elder futhark, extended by five more runes used to represent Anglo-Saxon vowel sounds and sometimes … See more

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