OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE (ANGLO-SAXON)

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Old English (Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary works date from the mid-7th century. After the Norman conquest of 1066, English was replaced, for a time, by Anglo-Norman (a relative of French) as the language of the upper classes. This is regarded as marking the end of the Old English era, since during this period the English language was heavily influenced by Anglo-Norman, developing into a phase known now as Middle English in England and Early Scots in Scotland.

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As a native speaker of Dutch, I understood pretty much all of it. I obviously might be biased, as I also speak English natively, but still. It’s great hearing the similarities between Ænglisc and Frisian (Frysk).

TheRickyLevi

I love how "Hello" is basically "whats up?" in old english

seaslugs

It's essentially pre-Norman English when England was culturally and politically oriented toward Scandinavia, and the languages spoken across the North Sea were more or less mutually intelligible. How different the world would be if Harold had defeated William at Hastings! The King of England today might be a guy named Aethelburt.

ZiggyBoon

And remember, that this is the West Saxon dialect of Old English.
Modern English with its dialects and accents mostly come from the anglian speaking regions of England aka from: Mercia, Northumbria and East Anglia.

mercianthane

As a native German speaker I understood almost everything

head_in_the_clouds

Interestingly, it sounds more like German than it does like modern English.

ERROR

I learnt German at school and it actually sounds surprisingly similar. I actually didn’t have too much trouble understanding it..

salazarslytherin

As an Anglophone, it amazes me how incomprehensibly different the same language is but in the past. And even more amazing that Dutch and some German people can understand it better than me.

intreoo

We use "svälta" (sweltan) in Sweden, but it means 'to starve' and not die. A lot of words were incredibly similar to Scandinavian.

danborggren

Can you do a video on the Mercian Dialect of Old English? Most examples of Old English come from the West Saxon Dialect, which was most prestige during the Anglo-Saxon times. However, Modern English is actually mostly descended from the Mercian Dialect spoken in London. The Mercian Dialect has more similarities to Modern English than the West Saxon dialect, and it would look a little less foreign.

jaydengreenberg

Funfact: We Germans understand some Old English because the Angles and the Saxons (Angelsachsen) immigrated from Germany in the 5th century.

vegamctavish

It's here! ITS FINALLY HERE! Thank you soo much Andy! I've been waiting for this for a very long time! It's 9 minutes too!

thatonenerd

Y con esto nos damos cuenta de que, efectivamente, el inglés es una lengua germánica.

gorgosaurusful

I'm learning old english and is some difficult for the gramatical cases and other concepts, for example the old english has been influence from the proto-germanic, old norse, old frisian and a little bit of latin. Greetings from Chile:)

vicentediaz

as a person who was raised in America with a German Father and Norwegian Mother and currently fluent in English, German and Norwegian, I understand this like 97%.

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