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OLD ENGLISH. - Coggle Diagram
OLD ENGLISH.
OLD CONSONANTS
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The consonants W, b, d, m, l , t and p were similar to their counterparts in modernd English.
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The fricatives /f/, /b/ /d/ and /s/ , each one represented two deparate sounds.
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Voiced fricatives are predictable allophone, in complementary distribution with voiceless fricatives.
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OLD VOWELS
There were 4 major changes from common germanic to OE. a >ae, ai>ä, au>ea, eu>eo.
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Unlike the Modern English language, OE had high front rounded vowels.
Modern transitive-intransitive pairs derive from the mutation of old intransitive froms to transitive: lie/lay, sit/set.
Diphthongs consisted of two back diphthongs (eo) and (eo) and two rising diphthongs (ae:o) and (ae3)
It began in 500 C.E
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Word order, was not as rigid as it tis today.
There were strong and weak declesions of nouns and adjectives, as well as conjugationf of verbs.
Gender was grammatical, not logical or natural.