Old English

•Early Indo-Europens lived in what is now southern Denmark and northern Germany
•People living in east near Caspian Sea spoke a language become to known as English
•Call their language Proto-Indo-European because it was spoken from India to Europe
•Beginning near the end of 8th century Vikings from Scandanavia invaded England
•We call Old English or Anglo-Saxon a Germanic tongue
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Old West Norse dialect(Red)

Old East Norse dialect(Orange)

Old Gutnish dialect(Pink)

Crimean Gothic(Blue)

Old English(Yellow)

Other Germanic languages with which Old (Green)


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