History

HERE YOU FIND DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE OLD ENGLISH: GRAVE, DICTIONARY, HISTORY AND WORKS

OLD ENGLISH - an early form of English, common in the territory of present England and southern Scotland from the middle of the V to the middle of the XII century. The Old English language was a West Germanic language and, therefore, was close to Old Frisian and Old Saxon languages. Compared with modern English, the Old English was morphologically more rich and resembled modern Icelandic, and its orthography more directly reflected the pronunciation. He had five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and instrumental (the latter had a special form only in pronouns and adjectives, and in the oldest monuments - and nouns of masculine and neuter gender singular); three numbers: single, dual and multiple; and three kinds: masculine, feminine and average.

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Saying the classics about the language as a whole

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

"Language is the history of the people, language is the path of civilization and culture ..."

Edward Sapir

"Language is a pre-prepared path or pattern of thought."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Beware of the refined language, the language must be simple and elegant."

Gilles Deleuze

"Language is either given entirely, or it is not at all"

The structure of the language

Alphabet

The Old English Latin alphabet or the Anglo-Saxon Latin alphabet is one of the two Old English scripts. As a rule, it consisted of 24 letters and was used for writing in the 9th-12th centuries. Of these, 20 were directly Latin letters, two versions of Latin letters (Ææ, Ðð), and two graphemes were borrowed from the runic alphabet (Þþ, Ƿƿ). The letters K, Q and Z were not used in writing Anglo-Saxon words.

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Grammar

Grammar of the Old English language is quite different from the grammar of modern English. Being one of the ancient Germanic languages, the Old English has a morphological system that is similar to the Pragermanic, preserving many of the changes that were common in the Indo-European language, as well as the characteristic elements of German grammar, for example, umlaut.

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Dictionary

The old english dictionary.

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English Painting

Joshua Reynolds

There are few painters in the world who have bathed in the rays of glory during their lifetime. And at the same time managed to stay in the memory of the descendants. English artist Joshua Reynolds was one of these lucky ones.

William Blake

William Blake was an extraordinary person. From childhood he was visited by mystical visions. And when he grew up, he became an anarchist. He did not recognize the laws and morality. Believing that freedom of man is so oppressed.

Thomas Gainsborough

Gainsborough can rightfully be called the most famous English artist of the 18th century. He lived at the same time as Reynolds. They were rivals.

Interesting people

King Alfred

King Alfred restored the social order in his kingdom. He placed the royal court above all other courts. During the war years, the old law fell into decay. Grandees arbitrarily embarrassed the people, the judges did not respect the jury. Alfred compiled the first collection of national laws ("The Truth of King Alfred"), ordering to expound in the Anglo-Saxon language the laws of various Saxon kings, selecting the most suitable.

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton — English physicist, mathematician, mechanic and astronomer, one of the creators of classical physics. The author of the fundamental work "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", in which he expounded the law of universal gravitation and the three laws of mechanics, which became the basis of classical mechanics. Developed differential and integral calculus, color theory, laid the foundations of modern physical optics, created many other mathematical and physical theories.

Jeffrey Chaucer

Jeffrey Chaucer — English poet, "the father of English poetry." Called one of the founders of English national literature and literary English, he was the first to write his compositions not in Latin, but in his native language. His work is called the anticipatory literature of the English Renaissance. The main work of J. Chaucer indicates a poetic collection of short stories "Canterbury Tales" imbued with realism.

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