Old English

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West Germanic language historical language stage of the English language

Old English is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken and written in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland roughly between the 5th and 12th centuries.

Aliases (3)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	West Germanic language → historical language → stage of the English language →
alternativeName	Anglo-Saxon →
developedInto	Middle English → Modern English →
earlyScript	Anglo-Saxon runes →
followedBy	Middle English →
hasAuthor	Cynewulf → King Alfred the Great → Ælfric of Eynsham →
hasCaseSystem	accusative → dative → genitive → nominative →
hasDialect	Kentish → Mercian → Northumbrian → West Saxon →
hasGrammaticalGender	feminine → masculine → neuter →
hasLiteraryWork	Beowulf → The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle → The Dream of the Rood → The Seafarer → The Wanderer →
hasNumber	dual (in pronouns) → plural → singular →
influencedBy	Celtic languages → Latin → Old Norse →
isAncestorOf	Fingallian → Scots language → Yola language →
languageCodeISO639-3	ang →
laterScript	Insular script →
partOfLanguageFamily	Germanic languages → Indo-European languages → West Germanic languages →
precededBy	Ingvaeonic dialects →
region	England → southern Scotland →
timePeriodEnd	12th century →
timePeriodStart	5th century →
usedFor	historical chronicles → legal documents → religious texts →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet → runic alphabet →

Referenced by (39)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alfred the Great → Anglo-Saxon England → Beowulf → Cristina → Middle Saxons → Northumbria → The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle → The Dream of the Rood →	language
Baldwin → Chapman → Edwin →	hasLanguageOfOrigin
Howe → Shirley → Willard →	hasOrigin
Proto-Germanic → Proto-West Germanic →	ancestorOf
Clarke → Cooper →	hasEtymologicalOrigin
Edgar Ætheling → Suthen →	languageSpoken
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law →	appliesTo
Old Frisian →	closelyRelatedTo
Northumbrian ("West Saxon") →	contrastedWith
Wilfred →	derivedFrom
Alfred →	etymologicalLanguage
Yola language →	hasAncestralLanguage
Proto-Indo-European →	hasDescendant
Farley →	hasEtymologicalRoot
Church →	hasLinguisticOrigin
High German consonant shift →	hasNoReflexesIn
Frisian languages →	hasNotableSimilarityTo
Édouard →	hasOriginLanguage
West Germanic languages →	includesLanguage
Botwulf →	languageOfName
Harold →	languageOfOrigin
Danish conquest of England →	languageOfPrimarySources
The Wanderer ("Old English period") →	literaryPeriod
Runic alphabet ("Anglo-Saxon Futhorc") →	mainVariant
Middle Frisian →	sharesFeatureWith