West Saxon Old English

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/West_Saxon_Old_English
GPTKB entity
Statements (22)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:dialect
gptkbp:closelyRelatedTo gptkb:Northumbrian_Old_English
gptkb:Kentish_Old_English
gptkb:Mercian_Old_English
gptkbp:descendedFrom gptkb:Modern_English
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label West Saxon Old English
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:West_Germanic
gptkbp:languageOfName gptkb:Wessex
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle
Beowulf (in later manuscript)
gptkbp:notableSpeaker gptkb:King_Alfred_the_Great
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:period 10th century
11th century
9th century
gptkbp:region gptkb:Southern_England
gptkbp:replacedBy gptkb:Middle_English
gptkbp:standardizedBy written Old English
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:Anglo-Saxon_England
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Latin_alphabet
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Northumbrian_Old_English
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7