ENGL1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Indo-European Languages, Italic Languages, Roman Britain
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Many oe (old english) words are still used, in some form in mne (modern english). Inflective languages change the endings of words for their function. Written and spoken until around 1100 hundred (norman conquest). Old fresian is the closest old language to old english. Mercian and north humbrian: the west saxon dialect is the foundation of modern english. One of the main european influencing languages was the celtic branch of the indo-european languages. Ancestor of modern french, italian, catalan, spanish, portuguese, romanian, etc. Different tribes of early germanic peoples who took authority away from the post the post- Anglo-saxons were pagans - still tracing back to their beliefs even after the national conversion to christianity. A front mutation of the word "anglisc" - from the word angle (an inhabitant og the land) 2: anglo-saxon conversion to christianity (from 600-650a. d. ) including, pre-benedictine reform (10th century, post-benedictine reform.
