Hace 3 días · Old English is essentially a distinct language from Modern English and is virtually impossible for 21st-century unstudied English-speakers to understand. Its grammar was similar to that of modern German : Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs had many more inflectional endings and forms , and word order was much freer than in Modern English.
- Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English
- 360–400 million (2006), L2 speakers: 750 million;, as a foreign language: 600–700 million
- Indo-European, GermanicWest GermanicNorth Sea GermanicAnglo-FrisianAnglicEnglish
- Manually coded English, (multiple systems)
Hace 6 días · The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn, meaning race or tribe of the Angles.
- 8.3 million (2021)ᵇ
- 44,000–282,000
- 6.3 million (2016)c
- 40,000-1.6 million (2011)ᵈ
Hace 3 días · Old English nouns are grouped by grammatical gender, and inflect based on case and number. Gender. Old English still had all three genders of Proto-Indo-European: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Each noun belongs to one of the three genders, while adjectives and determiners take different forms depending on the gender of the noun they describe.
- Me pleases the snow because he does the city quiet.
- I like the snow because it makes the city quiet.
- Mē līcaþ sē snāw for þon þe hē dēþ þā burg stille.
Hace 5 días · England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
Hace 3 días · A table specifically covering the vowel history from Old English to Modern English, providing particular detail about the Modern English developments. A table specifically focusing on the history of Middle English diphthongs , covering the period from Old English to Modern English .