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Old English Language and German Language

Old English Language and German Language. German Language and old English similarities. Old English Alphabet. German Alphabet. Old English Charateristics. The old English alphabet consists of 24 letters.

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Old English Language and German Language

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  1. Old English Language andGerman Language

  2. German Language and old English similarities Old English Alphabet German Alphabet

  3. Old English Charateristics The old English alphabet consists of 24 letters Anglo-Saxons were converted to christianity and a number of terms from the language of religion latin came into English at that time

  4. Germanlanguage Characteristics • The German language does not exist in isolation; it has close connections with other languages. • The German alphabet consists of all the 26 letters • German word order is variable and relations between nouns are demonstrated by changing the cases of the nouns. German has 4 cases, namely nominative, accusative, genitive and dative cases.

  5. Some evidence of the close relation between the old English and the old an English • Old English was the West Germanic language spoken in the area now known as England between the 5th and 11th centuries. Speakers of Old English called their language English, themselves Angle, Angelcynn or Angelfolc . www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htmheir home Angelcynn or Englaland The Old English language spoken, in enormous variety both chronological and geographic, between the sixth and (in some remoter areas) the thirteenth centuries, is a West Germanic language. (There is more detail about its development at Old English (History).) Like modern German, it had a strong system of inflections to convey grammatical relationships between words http://slb-ltsu.hull.ac.uk/awe/index.php?title=Old_English_(characteristics)

  6. Similarities between old English and the German language Both languages have words that seem to be very alike each other , also these words have the same meaning. Examples Example 1 Old English German language Meaning ScohScuh Shoe Willa wille desire This set of words shows evidence of a close similarity between the two languages, in fact the only difference is found in the variation ofa vowel.

  7. Example 2 Old English German Language Meaning Hus Haus House MusMaus Mouse Stan Stein Stone These examples show evidence the similarities between the old English and the German.In this case the words differences is characterized by the addition of some vowels

  8. Example 3 Old English German Language Meaning Rose RoseRose Through this example, it is completely evident the close relation between the two languages. The words are completely similar

  9. Example 4 (syntactic similarities) Old English German Language Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum; Vater Unser im Himmel, These sentences were taken from the lord prayer written down in old English and Germanic language, in both cases is possible to see that the possessive pronoun our ( words underline) is placed in the same way in the two sentences, despite they are two language completely different, so this example reinforce and shows evidence of the close relation between the two languages

  10. References http://www.thomastsoi.com/research/files/Die%20deutsche%20Sprache.pdf www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htmheir home Angelcynn or Englaland http://bitterscroll.podomatic.com/entry/2006-08-09T16_02_07-07_00 normanteigen.blogspot.com/.../lords-prayer-in-german www.beaugrande.com http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/10700/10787/german_10787_md.gif

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