Category:Old English language

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Wikipedia	English Wikipedia has an article on: Old English
Wikimedia Commons	Wikimedia Commons has links to Old English-related content in sister projects: Category:Old English language
Wiktionary	Wiktionary edition written in Old English: ang.wiktionary.org
Entry	Wiktionary entry for the language's English name: Old English
Considerations	Wiktionary resources for editors contributing to Old English entries: Wiktionary:About Old English Reference templates (12) Bibliography

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See also: Category:English language, Category:Middle English language, and Category:Old Saxon language

This is the main category of the Old English language.

It is an extinct language that was formerly spoken in the United Kingdom.

Information about Old English:

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Canonical name	Old English
Aliases	Anglo-Saxon
Language code	`ang`
Language family	Anglic languages
Ancestors	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Proto-West Germanic
Scripts	Latin script (`Latn`) Runic script (`Runr`)
Transliteration module	`Runr`: Module:Runr-translit
Wikidata	Q42365

Please see Wiktionary:About Old English for information and special considerations for creating Old English language entries.

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- ├───┬ Anglian Old English (ang-ang) V
  - │ ├──── Mercian Old English (ang-mer) V
  - │ └───┬ Northumbrian Old English (ang-nor) V
    - │ └───┬ Northern Middle English (enm-nor) V
      - │           ├───┬ Early Scots (enm-esc) V
        │           │   └───┬ Middle Scots (gmw-msc)
        │           │       └───┬ Scots (sco)
        │           │           ├──── Insular Scots (sco-ins) V
        │           │           ├──── Northern Scots (sco-nor) V
        │           │           ├──── South Scots (sco-sou) V
        │           │           ├──── Traveller Scottish (trl)
        │           │           └──── Ulster Scots (sco-uls) V
      - │ └──── Geordie English (en-geo) V
- ├──── Kentish Old English (ang-ken) V
- └───┬ Middle English (enm)
  - ├───┬ Early Modern English (en-ear) V
    - │ └───┬ English (en)
      - │ ├──── Afro-Seminole Creole (afs)
      - │ ├──── Angloromani (rme)
      - │ ├──── Antigua and Barbuda Creole English (aig)
      - │ ├───┬ Aukan (djk)
        │ │ └──── Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin (njt)
      - │ ├───┬ Australian English (en-AU) V
        │ │ └──── Australian Aboriginal English (en-aae) V
      - │ ├───┬ Australian Kriol (rop)
        │ │ └──── Gurindji Kriol (gjr)
      - │ ├──── Bahamian Creole (bah)
      - │ ├──── Bajan (bjs)
      - │ ├──── Belizean Creole (bzj)
      - │ ├──── Bislama (bi)
      -     │       ├───┬ British English (en-GB) V
            │       │   ├──── Manx English (en-IM) V
            │       │   ├──── Scottish English (en-GB-SCT) V
            │       │   └──── Welsh English (en-GB-WLS) V
      - │ ├──── Cameroon Pidgin (wes)
      - │ ├──── Chinese Pidgin English (cpi)
      - │ ├──── Grenadian Creole English (gcl)
      - │ ├──── Gullah (gul)
      - │ ├──── Guyanese Creole English (gyn)
      - │ ├──── Hong Kong English (en-HK) V
      - │ ├──── Indian English (en-IN) V
      -     │       ├───┬ Irish English (en-IE) V
            │       │   └───┬ Ulster English (en-uls) V
            │       │       └──── Northern Irish English (en-GB-NIR) V
      - │ ├──── Islander Creole English (icr)
      - │ ├──── Jamaican Creole (jam)
      - │ ├──── Krio (kri)
      - │ ├──── Kwinti (kww)
      - │ ├──── Liberian Kreyol (lir)
      - │ ├───┬ Maroon Spirit Language (crp-mar)
        │ │ └──── Kromanti (alv-kro) V
      - │ ├──── Ngatik Men's Creole (ngm)
      - │ ├──── Nicaraguan Creole (bzk)
      - │ ├──── Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
      -     │       ├───┬ North American English (en-NNN) V
            │       │   └───┬ American English (en-US) V
            │       │       ├──── California English (en-US-CA) V
            │       │       └──── Canadian English (en-CA) V
      - │ ├──── Pichinglis (fpe)
      - │ ├──── Pijin (pis)
      - │ ├──── Pitcairn-Norfolk (pih)
      - │ ├──── Polari (pld) V
      - │ ├──── Samoan Plantation Pidgin (crp-spp)
      - │ ├──── Saramaccan (srm)
      - │ ├──── Shelta (sth)
      - │ ├──── Solombala English (crp-slb)
      - │ ├──── Tobagonian Creole English (tgh)
      - │ ├──── Tok Pisin (tpi)
      - │ ├──── Torres Strait Creole (tcs)
      - │ ├──── Trinidadian Creole English (trf)
      - │ ├──── Turks and Caicos Creole English (tch)
      - │ ├──── Vincentian Creole English (svc)
      - │ └──── Virgin Islands Creole (vic)
  - └───┬ Irish Anglo-Norman (gmw-ian) F
    - ├──── Fingallian (gmw-fin)
    - └──── Yola (yol)

Category:ang:All topics: Old English terms organized by topic, such as "Family", "Chemistry", "Planets", "Canids" or "Cities in France".
Category:Old English appendices: Pages containing additional information about Old English.
Category:Old English entry maintenance: Old English entries, or entries in other languages containing Old English terms, that are being tracked for attention and improvement by editors.
Category:Old English lemmas: Old English lemmas, categorized by their part of speech.
Category:Old English names: Old English terms that are used to refer to specific individuals or groups. Place names, demonyms and other kinds of names can be found in Category:Names.
Category:Old English phrases: Old English groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense.
Category:Requests concerning Old English: Categories with Old English entries that need the attention of experienced editors.
Category:Old English rhymes: List of indexes of Old English words by their rhymes.
Category:Rhymes:Old English: Lists of Old English words by their rhymes.
Category:Old English symbols: Old English written signs.
Category:Old English templates: Old English templates, which contain reusable wiki code that helps with creating and managing entries.
Category:Old English terms by etymology: Old English terms categorized by their etymologies.
Category:Old English terms by usage: Old English terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
Category:Terms derived from Old English by language: Categories with terms that originate from Old English.
Category:User ang: Wiktionary users categorized by fluency levels in Old English.
Category:Varieties of Old English: Categories containing terms in varieties of Old English (regional, temporal, sociolectal, etc.).

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This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total.

Old English lemmas (14 c, 15971 e)

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Old English shortenings (3 c, 0 e)
Surnames from Old English by language (2 c, 0 e)
Old English symbols (2 c, 0 e)

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Old English templates (7 c, 2 e)
Old English terms by etymology (20 c, 0 e)
Old English terms by lexical property (3 c, 0 e)
Old English terms by semantic function (4 c, 0 e)
Old English terms by usage (16 c, 0 e)
Terms derived from Old English by language (145 c, 0 e)
Old English thesaurus entries (0 c, 7 e)

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User ang (4 c, 103 e)

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Varieties of Old English (2 c, 0 e)

Pages in category "Old English language"

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Wiktionary:About Old English

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