Curated category
Medieval languages
- Middle EnglishMiddle English is the name given to the forms of the English language spoken in England from the Norman Conquest of 1066 until the late 15th century.
- Old EnglishOld English - also called Englisc, Ænglisc, or Anglo-Saxon - was carried to Britain in the mid-5th century by Germanic settlers from the continent, and it…
- Old FrisianOld Frisian stretched along the North Sea coast from roughly modern-day Bruges in Belgium all the way to the Weser River in northwestern Germany.
- Old NorseOld Norse was a North Germanic language spoken across Scandinavia and far beyond during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages, roughly the 8th through…
- Medieval LatinMedieval Latin was the written language that held Europe together for roughly a thousand years. It carried theology from Rome to Ireland, law from conquered…
- Renaissance LatinRenaissance Latin is the literary style that humanist scholars forged from roughly the fourteenth to the fifteenth century, insisting that the centuries of…
- Classical TibetanClassical Tibetan carries a second name in Bhutan: Chöke. It is a liturgical language of Tibetan Buddhism, dating from the 9th century.
- Norn languageNorn is a dead language that once rang out across the windswept islands of Orkney and Shetland, carried there by Norse settlers who arrived in very…
- Classical ArabicClassical Arabic is a language that has carried the words of the Quran for more than thirteen centuries, and yet most people alive today have never spoken a…
- Coptic languageCoptic is a language that has not been spoken natively for centuries, yet it is heard in churches every single week. It is the final form of Egyptian, the…