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Old English

Old English is the name given to the earliest recorded stage of the English language, between the 5th and 11th centuries. It was the West Germanic[1] language spoken in the area known today as England. Speakers of Old English called their language Englisc, and themselves Angles. Old English began to appear in writing during the early 8th century. Most texts were written in West Saxon and they were called Anglo-Saxon – one of four main dialects.

The beginning of Old English – It is very difficult to say when exactly Old English began, because this pushes us back beyond the date of our earliest records for either Old English or any of its closest relatives. There are Latin-English dictionaries from around the year 700, but no dictionary of old English from that time.
There are several differences between  modern English: vocabulary, Pronunciation and even the Letters were different; they called "runes". In the pictures below we can see the different and how the runes look like

 

The 10th century, Anglo-Saxon scribes began to use Caroline Latin while continuing to write Old English. Some Old English words of Latin origin that have survived into modern English include belt, butter, chalk, chest, cup, fan, fork, mile, minster, mint, monk, pepper, school, sock, strop and wine.

 

 

 

[1] Garmanic-   a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; 

2 Chaucer - Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the greatest English poets of the Middle  Ages.