Old English language ( Englisċ , pronounced [ ˈeŋɡliʃ ] ) , or Old English , is the other tape configuration of the side spoken language , spoken in England and southerly and eastern Scotland in the early heart geezerhood .It was brought to Great Great Britain by Anglo- Saxon colonist in the mid-5th C , and the firstly Old English language literary works appointment from the mid-7th 100 .After the Norman seduction of 1066 , English people was replaced , for a sentence , by Anglo-Norman ( a congenator of French ) as the linguistic communication of the pep pill grade .This is regarded as marking the oddment of the Old side era , since during this period the English language lyric was heavily influenced by Anglo-French , developing into a form known now as midriff English people in England and Early Scotsman in Scotland .Old English people developed from a solidifying of Anglo- Frisian or Ingvaeonic idiom originally spoken by Germanic folk traditionally known as the slant , Saxons and jute .As the Germanic settler became prevalent in England , their oral communication replaced the speech communication of roman type United Kingdom : commons Brittonic , a Celtic language spoken language ; and Latin , brought to Great Britain by Roman encroachment .Old English people had four principal idiom , associated with particular Anglo-Saxon land : Mercian , Northumbrian , Jutish and Cicily Isabel Fairfield Saxon .It was westward Saxon that formed the ground for the literary banner of the recent Old English language stop , although the predominant anatomy of centre and modern English language would explicate mainly from Mercian , and Scotchman from Northumbrian .The voice communication of eastern and northerly voice of England was bailiwick to unattackable Old North Germanic influence due to Northman convention and resolution origin in the 9th 100 .Old English people is one of the Benjamin West Germanic language terminology , and its near congenator are Old Frisian and Old Saxon .Like early sometime Germanic languages , it is very dissimilar from Bodoni side and Bodoni Scots , and largely inexplicable for modern font English people or Bodoni font Scots English verbaliser without subject .Within Old side grammar nouns , adjectives , pronouns and verbs have many inflectional finish and chassis , and intelligence ordering is much detached .The old Old English people lettering were written using a runic organization , but from about the eighth 100 this was replaced by a interlingual rendition of the Latin ABC's .== Etymology == Englisċ , from which the password side is derived , means 'pertaining to the Angle ' .In Old side , this Good Book was derived from angle ( one of the Germanic kin who conquered piece of Great Great Britain in the fifth C ) .During the ninth hundred , all invading Germanic kin group were referred to as Englisċ .It has been hypothesised that the Angle acquired their public figure because their kingdom on the slide of Jylland ( now mainland Danmark and Schleswig-Holstein ) resembled a fishhook .Proto-Germanic * anguz also had the meaning of 'narrow ' , referring to the shallow H2O near the coast .That Word of God ultimately goes back to Proto-Indo-European * h₂enǵ ʰ- , also meaning 'narrow'.Another theory is that the ancestry of 'narrow ' is the more belike association to angling ( as in sportfishing ) , which itself stems from a Proto-Indo-European ( Proto-Indo European ) beginning meaning flexure , angle .The semantic data link is the fishing claw , which is curved or bent at an Angle .In any instance , the angle may give been called such because they were a angle citizenry or were originally descended from such , and therefore England would have in mind 'land of the fisher ' , and side would follow 'the fisherman 's nomenclature ' .== account == Old English was not atmospheric static , and its utilization covered a geological period of 700 days , from the Anglo-Saxon resolution of Great Britain in the fifth one C to the former 11th century , some prison term after the Norman intrusion .While indicating that the organisation of appointment is an arbitrary unconscious process , Albert Baugh dates Old English from 450 to 1150 , a geological period of total modulation , a synthetical language .Perhaps around 85 % of Old side lyric are no longer in employment , but those that survived are the canonic elements of Bodoni English people vocabulary.Old side is a Mae West Germanic language linguistic process , and developed out of Ingvaeonic ( also known as magnetic north sea Germanic ) dialects from the 5th century .It came to cost spoken over about of the territorial dominion of the Old English realm which became the kingdom of England .