Old English vs Middle English Old English Origin Old English was spoken from mid 5th century to the mid-12th century. It was a West Germanic language of the 5th century. The origin of the old English started from ingvaeonic also called "Germanic of the North Sea". read more
Old English vs Middle English. Old English Origin Old English was spoken from mid 5th century to the mid-12th century. It was a West Germanic language of the 5th century. The origin of the old English started from ingvaeonic also called “Germanic of the North Sea”. read more
Old English, Middle English, and Modern English are the classification of English language, and they exhibit some differences between them. English is being termed as the world’s third most widely spoken native language following Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. read more
The most obvious difference is that you can read Middle English and understand it, or some of it, anyway, whereas Old English is very foreign looking. Old English, often called Anglo-Saxon, is a heavily inflected Germanic language with three genders, three numbers ( singular, dual and plural) and five cases in the noun, Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and Instrumental. read more