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  2. Old English phonology - Wikipedia

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    Old English phonology is the pronunciation system of Old English, the Germanic language spoken on Great Britain from around 450 to 1150 and attested in a body of written texts from the 7th–12th centuries.

  3. Phonological history of Old English - Wikipedia

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    The phonological system of the Old English language underwent many changes during the period of its existence. These included a number of vowel shifts, and the palatalisation of velar consonants in many positions. For historical developments prior to the Old English period, see Proto-Germanic language.

  4. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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    However, this earlier Middle English vowel /a/ is itself the merger of a number of different Anglian Old English sounds: the short vowels indicated in Old English spelling as a , æ and ea ; the long equivalents ā , ēa , and often ǣ when directly followed by two or more consonants (indicated by ā+CC, ǣ+CC, etc.);

  5. Old English - Wikipedia

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    Remnants of the Old English case system in Modern English are in the forms of a few pronouns ... A grammar of Old English. Volume 1, Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.

  6. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The pronunciation system of English has undergone many changes throughout the history of the language, from the phonological system of Old English, to that of Middle English, through to that of the present day. Variation between dialects has always been significant.

  7. Phonological history of English open back vowels - Wikipedia

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    In the Old English vowel system, the vowels in the open back area were unrounded: /ɑ/, /ɑː/.There were also rounded back vowels of mid-height: /o/, /oː/.The corresponding spellings were a and o , with the length distinctions not normally marked; in modern editions of Old English texts, the long vowels are often written ā , ō .

  8. Phonological history of English diphthongs - Wikipedia

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    Although the Old English diphthongs merged into monophthongs, Middle English began to develop a new set of diphthongs.Many of these came about through vocalization of the palatal approximant /j/ (usually from an earlier /ʝ/) or the labio-velar approximant /w/ (sometimes from an earlier voiced velar fricative [ɣ]), when they followed a vowel.

  9. Help:IPA/Old English - Wikipedia

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    Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, was an early form of English in medieval England. It is different from Early Modern English, the language of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, and from Middle English, the language of Geoffrey Chaucer. See Old English phonology for more detail on the sounds of Old English.