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{{Infobox language
|name=Middle English
|nativename=
|region=[[England]], some parts of [[Wales]], [[Scotland|south east Scotland and Scottish burghs]], to some extent [[Ireland]]
|era=developed into [[Early Modern English]], [[Scots language|Scots]] and [[Yola language|Yola]] in [[Wexford]] by the 16th century
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
|fam3=[[West Germanic]]
|fam4=[[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]]
|ancestor=[[Old English]]
|iso2=enm
|iso3=enm
|notice=IPA
}}
'''Middle English''' is an older type of the [[English language]] that was spoken after the [[Norman invasion]] in [[1066]] until the middle/late [[1400s]]. It came from [[Old English]] after [[William the Conqueror]] came to England with his French nobles and stopped English from being taught in schools for a few hundred years. Over this time, English borrowed several [[French language|French]] words.
In the [[1470s]], the ''Chancery Standard,'' a type of English spoken in [[London]], started to become more common. This was partly because [[William Caxton]] brought the [[printing press]] to [[England]] in the 1470s. The type of English that people spoke in England between then and 1650 is called [[Early Modern English]]. There were many different [[dialect]]s of Middle English.
[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] wrote [[The Canterbury Tales]] in Middle English.
==Sources==
{{Reflist}}
*Brunner, Karl (1962) ''Abriss der mittelenglischen Grammatik''; 5. Auflage. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer (1st ed. Halle (Saale): M. Niemeyer, 1938)
*Brunner, Karl (1963) ''An Outline of Middle English Grammar''; translated by Grahame Johnston. Oxford: Blackwell
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[[Category:English language]]
{{incubator|enm}}
|name=Middle English
|nativename=
|region=[[England]], some parts of [[Wales]], [[Scotland|south east Scotland and Scottish burghs]], to some extent [[Ireland]]
|era=developed into [[Early Modern English]], [[Scots language|Scots]] and [[Yola language|Yola]] in [[Wexford]] by the 16th century
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
|fam3=[[West Germanic]]
|fam4=[[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]]
|ancestor=[[Old English]]
|iso2=enm
|iso3=enm
|notice=IPA
}}
'''Middle English''' is an older type of the [[English language]] that was spoken after the [[Norman invasion]] in [[1066]] until the middle/late [[1400s]]. It came from [[Old English]] after [[William the Conqueror]] came to England with his French nobles and stopped English from being taught in schools for a few hundred years. Over this time, English borrowed several [[French language|French]] words.
In the [[1470s]], the ''Chancery Standard,'' a type of English spoken in [[London]], started to become more common. This was partly because [[William Caxton]] brought the [[printing press]] to [[England]] in the 1470s. The type of English that people spoke in England between then and 1650 is called [[Early Modern English]]. There were many different [[dialect]]s of Middle English.
[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] wrote [[The Canterbury Tales]] in Middle English.
==Sources==
{{Reflist}}
*Brunner, Karl (1962) ''Abriss der mittelenglischen Grammatik''; 5. Auflage. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer (1st ed. Halle (Saale): M. Niemeyer, 1938)
*Brunner, Karl (1963) ''An Outline of Middle English Grammar''; translated by Grahame Johnston. Oxford: Blackwell
{{Europe-stub}}
[[Category:English language]]
{{incubator|enm}}