English
Proper noun
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Old English
- The ancestor language of modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has 5 cases of nouns and adjectives. In addition to singular and plural grammatical numbers, there was a dual number for two people.
Synonyms
Anglo-Saxon
Related terms
English
Middle English
Modern English
See also
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Germanic
External links
SIL entry for Old English, IS 639-3 code ang
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