Middle English (in southern England)
GPTKB entity
Statements (25)
Predicate | Object |
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gptkbp:instanceOf |
historical language variety
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gptkbp:descendedFrom |
gptkb:Modern_English_(southern_dialects)
gptkb:Old_English_(West_Saxon) |
gptkbp:distinctiveFeature |
influence of Norman French vocabulary
loss of Old English inflectional endings retention of some Old English vocabulary use of southern forms such as 'ich' for 'I' |
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Middle English (in southern England)
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gptkbp:influencedBy |
gptkb:Latin
gptkb:Norman_French |
gptkbp:ISO639-3 |
enm
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gptkbp:languageFamily |
gptkb:Anglic
gptkb:Germanic gptkb:Indo-European gptkb:West_Germanic gptkb:Anglo-Frisian |
gptkbp:notableFor |
gptkb:Ormulum
gptkb:The_Canterbury_Tales gptkb:Ancrene_Wisse |
gptkbp:partOf |
gptkb:Middle_English
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gptkbp:period |
c. 1150–1500
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gptkbp:spokenIn |
southern England
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gptkbp:writingSystem |
gptkb:Latin_alphabet
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gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:West_Saxon
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gptkbp:bfsLayer |
6
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