Word: anglosaxons
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Dates: during 1895-1895
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...tongue. Just so the Latin language was brought into the territory we now call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right we may call modern French Latin. We may do this with even better right in the latter case, for French has not suffered so much from outside changes as English. The effects of the language of the Franks on French were...
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