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- 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.
- Synonym: Medieval English
Middle English
- Arabic: إِنْجْلِيزِيَّة وُسْطَى (ar) f (ʔinjlīziyya(t) wusṭā)
- Catalan: anglès mitjà (ca) m
- Valencian: anglés mitjà m
- Chinese:
- Danish: middelengelsk n
- Dutch: Middelengels (nl) n
- Esperanto: Mezoangla Lingvo
- Finnish: keskienglanti (fi)
- French: moyen anglais (fr) m
- Galician: inglés medio m
- Georgian: საშუალო ინგლისური (sašualo inglisuri), შუაინგლისური (šuainglisuri), შუაინგლისური ენა (šuainglisuri ena)
- German: Mittelenglisch (de) n; mittelenglisch (de) (adjective)
- Hindi: मध्य अंग्रेज़ी f (madhya aṅgrezī)
- Hungarian: középangol (hu)
- Icelandic: miðenska f
- Irish: Meán-Bhéarla m
- Italian: inglese media f
- Japanese: 中英語 (ja) (ちゅうえいご, chū-ēgo), 中期英語 (ja) (ちゅうきえいご, chūki-ēgo)
- Korean: 중영어(中英語) (jung'yeong'eo), 중세영어(中世英語) (jungseyeong'eo)
- Marathi: मध्य इंग्रजी (madhya iṅgrajī)
- Middle English: Englisch, English, Inglis
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mellomengelsk m
- Nynorsk: mellomengelsk m
- Polish: język średnioangielski m
- Portuguese: inglês médio (pt) m
- Russian: среднеангли́йский (ru) m (sredneanglíjskij)
- Spanish: inglés medio (es) m
- Swedish: medelengelska (sv) c
- Turkish: Orta İngilizce (tr)
- ISO 639-3 code enm (SIL)
Middle English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 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.