The Old English Dialects

• 作 者: 张惠锋
• 机 构: 黑龙江工程学院外语系 黑龙江 哈尔滨 150050
• 出 处: 科技信息(科学教研)
• 发表日期: 2007年11期
• 关键词: somewhat Saxon spoken Anglo locality earliest entirely distinguish literary Engl

Old English was not an entirely uniform language. Not only are there differences between the language of the earliest written records (about A.D. 700) and that of the later literary texts, but the language differed somewhat from one locality to another. Four Principal dialects were spoken in Anglo-Saxon England: Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian, and Northumbrain. This paper will explore the classification, the distribution and the features of old English dialects.

Old English was not an entirely uniform language. Not only are there differences the the language of the earliest written records (about AD 700) and that of the later literary texts, but the language differed somewhat from one locality to another. Four Principal dialects were spoken in Anglo-Saxon England: Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian, and Northumbrain. This paper will explore the classification, the distribution and the features of old English dialects.