Middle English

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Middle_English

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:language
gptkbp:descendedFrom	gptkb:Early_Modern_English gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:era	c. 1150–c. 1500
gptkbp:glottologCode	midd1343
gptkbp:hasDialects	gptkb:Midlands_Middle_English gptkb:Northern_Middle_English gptkb:Southern_Middle_English
gptkbp:hasFeature	emergence of standard written English increased use of word order large influx of French vocabulary loss of grammatical gender simplification of inflections
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Middle English
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Modern_English
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Latin gptkb:Norman_French gptkb:Old_Norse
gptkbp:ISO639-3	enm
gptkbp:languageFamily	gptkb:Anglic gptkb:Germanic gptkb:Indo-European gptkb:West_Germanic gptkb:Anglo-Frisian
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:The_Canterbury_Tales
gptkbp:region	gptkb:British_Isles
gptkbp:spokenIn	gptkb:England gptkb:Ireland gptkb:Wales gptkb:southern_Scotland
gptkbp:usedBy	gptkb:Chaucer gptkb:William_Langland gptkb:John_Gower gptkb:Sir_Thomas_Malory
gptkbp:writingSystem	gptkb:Latin_alphabet
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:W.S._Merwin
gptkbp:bfsLayer	4