English

2. Some of the earliest OE insertions in Latin texts are…
5. Guest definitions of term “change of z - r in Germanic languages
7. Old English scribes used two writing system: the Latin alphabet and …
9. William LangLand created Piers ….
11. Who fits the description?Write his surname “He was often called the founder of literary English.He wrote only in English and used the London dialect,helping establish it as the standard.”
13. Related words in different languages derived from a common source.
14. What is the name of the poem described below “ It’s an epic poem of the 7th-8th century with more than 3,000 lines. It tells about heroic battles and legendary heroes, based on old Germanic traditions. It written in a northern dialect but preserved in a West Saxon manuscript”
15. What dialect is missing?In Late ME,there were 3 main dialect groups: Southern, …. and Northern.
18. Old English poetry is written in alliterative….
19. The earliest prose texts are Anglo-Saxon ….
20. An ancient Indo-European language crucial for comparative linguistics.

1. Yorkshire and Lancashire,as well as the early form of Scottish?
3. What method compares related languages to reconstruct their common ancestor?
4. What period in English history lasted from 1100 to 1500? …. English
6. Who translated the Bible into English and wrote religious texts in Late ME? John ….
8. What was the runic alphabet called?
10. In which division of the Germanic branch is English? … Germanic
12. Who was the first to suggest that Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek had a common ancestor, which laid the foundation for the comparative method? Sir William
16. The transition from Old English to Early Middle English was caused by the …… Conquest in 1066, which brought major political, social, and linguistic changes.
17. Guest definitions of term “vovel alternation used mainly in strong verbs