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{{Infobox language

|name=Middle English

|name=Middle English

|nativename=

|nativename= Englisch, Inglis, English

|region=[[England]], some parts of [[Wales]],  [[Scotland|south east Scotland and Scottish burghs]], to some extent [[Ireland]]

|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

|era=developed into [[Early Modern English]], [[Scots language|Scots]], and [[Yola language|Yola]] and [[Fingallian]] in [[Ireland]] by the 16th century

|familycolor=Indo-European

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=[[Germanic languages|Germanic]]

|fam2=[[Germanic languages|Germanic]]

|fam3=[[West Germanic]]

|fam3=[[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]

|fam4=[[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]]

|fam4=[[Ingvaeonic languages|North Sea Germanic]]

|fam5=[[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]]

|fam6=[[English languages|Anglic]]

|ancestor=[[Old English]]

|ancestor=[[Old English]]

|iso2=enm

|iso2=enm

|iso3=enm

|iso3=enm

|notice=IPA

|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.

'''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.  

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.

[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] wrote [[The Canterbury Tales]] in Middle English.

*Brunner, Karl (1962) ''Abriss der mittelenglischen Grammatik''; 5. Auflage. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer (1st ed. Halle (Saale): M. Niemeyer, 1938)

*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

*Brunner, Karl (1963) ''An Outline of Middle English Grammar''; translated by Grahame Johnston. Oxford: Blackwell

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