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Language code: enm

Technical information about ISO 639 language code enm

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The table below provides technical details for the Middle English (1100-1500) language, designated by the enm code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

enm

Name

Middle English (1100-1500)

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
NorthernEast MidlandsWest MidlandsSouthernKentish
Related languages
Old EnglishScotsMiddle ScotsMiddle Low GermanMiddle Dutch
Key facts
Used the letters þ (thorn) and ȝ (yogh) that vanished from later EnglishHeavy influx of Norman French vocabulary reshaped its lexiconThe Great Vowel Shift began in late Middle English, radically altering pronunciationGeoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exemplifies its literary peakThird-person plural pronouns they/their/them were adopted from Old Norse through northern dialect contact
Sample phrase

Heil, hou art þou?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Middle English (1100-1500) language, identified by the code enm, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Historical' by its type.

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