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Largest collection of old english

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Exeter Book

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Evidences lies in?

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Surviving manuscript

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Famous old english text and poem and epic historical document of anglo saxon

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Beowulf

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Old english is also known as

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Anglo Saxon

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Origin of old english

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celts and romans

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land of angles?

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Englaland

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Variety of language used for a particular purpose

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Register

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Territory of Northumbrian and east anglia where vikings settled

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DANELAW

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Loved to rob, kill, burn books, enslaving

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PAGAN

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The other language that generated those other languages is known as

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protolanguage

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Is concerned with the reconstruction of earlier language or an earlier state based on comparison

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Comparative Method

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Word that is related of origin to another word (COUSINS)

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COGNATES

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The Indo European and uralic english is from what BRANCH?

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GERMANIC BRANCH

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