History of english language

OE dialects. The Germanic tribes who settled in Britain in the 5th and 6th century spoke closely related tribal dialects belonging to the West Germanic subgroup. Their common origin and their separation from the other realtd tongues as well as their joint evolution in Britain transformed them eventually into a single tongue English. But first tribal dialects were transformed into local or regional dialects. Four principle dialects: Kentish a dialect spoken in the areas known as Kent and Surrey. It had developed from the tongue of the jutes and Frisians.West Saxon, spoken in the rest of England south of the Thames and the Bristol Channel. Mercian a dialect derived from the speech of southern Angles and spoken chiefly in the central region, from the Thames to the Humber. Northumbian spoken from the Humber north to the river Forth. The dialects passed into one another imperceptibly and dialectal forms were freely borrowed from one dialect into another. Towards the 11th century the written form of the west saxon dialect developed into a bookish type of language, which probably served as a language of writing for all ebglish speaking people. At the time of written OE the dialects had changed from tribal to regional, they possessed both an oral and a written form and were no longer equal, in the domain of writing the west saxon dialect prevailed over its neighbours.
Early ME dialects.the regional ME dialects had developed from respective OE dialects. The Southern group included the Kentish &the South-Western dialects. Kentish was a direct descendant of the OE dialect known by same name. the South-Western group was a continuation of the OE Saxon dialects.
The group of Midland dialects is divided into West Midland &East Midland as 2 main areas, with further subdivisions within:South-East Midland&North-East Midland,South-West Midland&North-West Midland.
The Northen dialects had developed...

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