Old English , or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern See more

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 … See more

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 See more

Englisċ (from which the word English is derived) means 'pertaining to the Angles'. In Old English, this word was derived from Angles (one of the Germanic tribes who settled in parts of Great Britain in the 5th century). During the 9th century, all invading Germanic … See more

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 … See more

The language of the Anglo-Saxon settlers appears not to have been significantly affected by the native British Celtic languages See more

Morphology
Nouns decline for five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental; three See more