old english features
- Created by: Hope G
- Created on: 11-06-16 14:05
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- Old English 450-1150
- Invaded by Anglo-Saxons
- Lang came from the Germanic group of languages, grammatically similar to German / Dutsch
- Anglo-Saxon survived due to increasing literacy culture
- Dual pronouns (you,two,us)
- Orthography: 'hie-heo-they'. 'hiera-heora-theirs'.
- heo-she
- Orthography: 'hie-heo-they'. 'hiera-heora-theirs'.
- Relied on inflections, prefixes and suffixes
- Provided functional words such as preoposition
- Letter 'U' didn't exist unti 10th century - V used instead
- Provided functional words such as preoposition
- Invaded by Anglo-Saxons
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