Anglo-Norman
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langue d'oïl formerly spoken in the British Isles
Key facts
- Region
- Great Britain and Ireland
- Ethnicity
- Anglo-Normans
- Extinct
- 15th century AD
- Language family
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latinic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo - Iberian ? Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian? Arpitan – Oïl Oïl Frankish zone Northern Norman Anglo-Norman
- Early forms
- Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Gallo-Romance Old French Old Norman
- Iso 639 3
- xno
- Linguist list
- xno
- Glottolog
- angl1258
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- regiolect
- Subclass of
- Old Norman
- Image
- Les Roys de Engeltere - Anglo Norman Prose.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Anglo-Norman
- writing system
- Latin script
- linguistic typology
- subject–verb–object
- has grammatical gender
- neuter
- has grammatical case
- oblique case
- indigenous to
- Republic of Ireland
- P13311
- equinox
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Encyclopedic overview
Anglo-Norman (Norman: Anglo-Normaund; French: Anglo-normand), also known as Anglo-Norman French, Insular French, and part of the French of England (which includes Anglo-French) was a dialect of Old Norman that was used in England and, to a lesser extent, other places in Great Britain and Ireland during the Anglo-Norman period.
Origin
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anglo-Norman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.