Middle English

English Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Middle English.wav Southern England Proper noun Middle English The ancient or older language of Modern English, spoken in England and parts of Scotland (where it became Lowland Scots) from about 1100 AD to 1500 AD. en Medieval English Related terms en en English: * Classical English * en Standard English [en StE] * en Old English (en Anglo-Saxon) * en Middle English [en ME], en Medieval English * en New English [en NE] (en Modern English) ** en Early New English (en Early Modern English) ** en Late Modern English [en LModE] Translations Middle English Arabic: ar إِنْجْلِيزِيَّة وُسْطَى f Catalan: ca anglès mitjà m Valencian: ca anglés mitjà m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 中古英語 zung1 gu2 jing1 jyu5 Hokkien: nan-hbl 中古英語 Tiong-kó͘ Eng-gí, Tiong-kó͘ Eng-gú Mandarin: cmn 中古英語 Zhōnggǔ Yīngyǔ Danish: da middelengelsk n Dutch: nl Middelengels n Esperanto: eo Mezoangla Lingvo, eo meza angla Finnish: fi keskienglanti French: fr moyen anglais m Galician: gl inglés medio m Georgian: ka საშუალო ინგლისური, ka შუაინგლისური, ka შუაინგლისური ენა German: de Mittelenglisch n; de mittelenglisch adjective Hindi: hi मध्य अंग्रेज़ी f Hungarian: hu középangol Icelandic: is miðenska f Irish: ga Meán-Bhéarla m Italian: it inglese media f Japanese: ja 中英語 ちゅうえいご, chū-ēgo, ja 中期英語 ちゅうきえいご, chūki-ēgo Korean: ko ^중영어(中英語), ko ^중세영어(中世英語) Marathi: mr मध्य इंग्रजी Middle English: enm Englisch, enm English, enm Inglis Norwegian: Bokmål: nb mellomengelsk m Nynorsk: nn mellomengelsk m Polish: pl język średnioangielski m-in Portuguese: pt inglês médio m Russian: ru среднеангли́йский m Spanish: es inglés medio m Swedish: sv medelengelska c Turkish: tr Orta İngilizce See also en Anglo-Saxon en Germanic enm Further reading 1 enm 2005 (originally) / 2011 (Taylor & Francis e-Library edition), Philipp Strazny (ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics: Volume 1 & 2: A-Z, Fitzroy Dearborn (an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group), p. 688, section Middle English: Early Middle English usually covers the time from the mid eleventh to the mid thirteen centuries. [...] The Central Middle English period is [...] Late Middle English is the time during and after Chaucer's life (born c. 1340—1346, died 1400), up to the introduction of printing. (Caxton brought out the first printed edition of The Canterbury tales in 1478.) It was during the Late Middle English period that the pronunciation changed in a complex process commonly referred to as the Great Vowel Shift. en retronyms en English Languages