answersLogoWhite

0

Middle English

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

What else can I help you with?

Continue Learning about Linguistics

What are the four stages of the English language?

The four stages of the English language are Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English. These stages mark the historical development and evolution of the language over time.


What three of the languages that are steps English went through before it became the Modern English language?

Three languages that influenced the development of Modern English are Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Middle English (including Norman French), and Early Modern English (post-Great Vowel Shift). These languages contributed to the evolution of English vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation over time.


What is the modern English equivalent of Heofonum?

"Heofonum" in Old English translates to "heavens" or "skies" in modern English.


What language was the 1611 king James version written in?

It was written in a version of English that is now called old modern English. As a rough guide: any English that you can actually read is modern English. If it's a bit difficult to read it's old modern English. Shakespeare too wrote in old modern English but it wasn't old when he was writing. Obviously. Remember that Shakespeare was writing to please the masses and he had much the objectives and pressures as any present day scriptwriter. The committee that translated the King James Bible were trying to make the word of God available to all English speakers. There is also middle English e.g. Chaucer. and Old English or Anglo Saxon which the English developed from about 500 to 1100AD. Then it gradually evolved to Middle English.


What is the order the steps in the development of modern English beginning with Indo-European?

The order of the development of modern English is: Indo-European → Germanic → West Germanic → Anglo-Frisian → Anglic → English.

Related Questions

What is Shakespeare's English called?

Shakespeare wrote in modern English, in the dialect called Early Modern English.


What is the language of Shakespeare called?

EARLY MODERN ENGLISH is what it is really called.


What do you call the English that Shakespeare used?

It is a form of Modern English called Early Modern English or Elizabethan English.


Is A Midsummers Night Dream a poem?

No. Shakespeare wrote in Modern English, in a dialect called Early Modern English.


What modern English city was called londonium by Romans?

London was called Londinium. It is fairly obvious if you shorten it.


What modern English city was called ''Londonium by the Romans?

London was called Londinium. It is fairly obvious if you shorten it.


What is the ritual meal before Passover called?

It is called a Seder, or "order" in English


What was Shakespeare's language?

Modern English, the same language I am writing in and you are reading. It is a different dialect called Elizabethan or Early Modern, but the same language, easily comprehensible by English-speakers today.


What language came before English?

English has its origins in ancient Germanic roots. But there is more. There was Olde English, Middle English and Modern English. If you heard someone speak in Olde English you would not understand 90 percent of what they said and they would not understand you. We speak Modern English which has evolved from Olde and Middle English.


How can you translate I into modern English?

The word I is already in modern English.


What are the four stages of the English language?

The four stages of the English language are Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English. These stages mark the historical development and evolution of the language over time.


What is the modern English spelling of scip?

Scip in Old English is ship in Modern English.