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The Old English Language - Coggle Diagram
The Old English Language
It had a complex grammar with a system of word endings.
Dialects
The four major dialects spoken were the following:
Kentish
Mercian
Northumbrian,
West Saxon.
Old English vocabulary
The vocabulary was small and resistant.
It is spoken from about 450 to 1150.
Pronunciation
The old English word stan is the same as modern English stone
The long a vowel is formed further back in the throat than the sound of the long
Examples:
Halig holy, hin -bone, rớp -opa, and gan go
It was markedly from our modern that it is virtually a foreign language.
Classification of English
The English language is one of the Western Germanic languages and is therefore of the Indo-European family.
Languages most like English are Frisian and Low German.
