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Old English
Old English
(
Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc
) or
Anglo-Saxon
is the earliest historical form of the
English language
, spoken in
England
and southern and eastern
Scotland
in the early
Middle Ages
. It was brought to
Great Britain
by
Anglo-Saxon settlers
probably in the mid 5th century, and the first
Old English literary works
date from the mid 7th century. After the
Norman Conquest
of 1066, English was replaced for a time as the language of the upper classes by
Anglo-Norman
, a
relative of French
, and Old English developed into the next historical form of English, known as
Middle English
.
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