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The most important Old English dialects were: |
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Northumbrian, Mercian, Wessex, Kentish |
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O. Scottish, O. Irish, O.Welsh, O. Gaelic |
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Anglo-Saxon, O.Frisian, O.Frankonian |
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Old German, Old Norse |
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O. Gaelic, O. Frisian, O. Scottish |
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What is the parent language of the Indo-European family of languages? |
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Indo European parent |
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Old Norse |
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Old Franconian |
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Old Frisian |
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Old High German |
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Why is that language the most important in the East Germanic languages? |
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It left a written monument |
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Its vocabulary was rich |
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It was frequently spoken |
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It was spoken on the territory of the British Isles |
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It was an important language |
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Who was the first English printer? |
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William Caxton |
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Thomas Moor |
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John Bruce |
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
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William Shakespeare |
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What is the most important language in the North Germanic group? |
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Danish |
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Swidish |
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Faroes |
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Norwegian |
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Icelandic |
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The Great Vowel Shift in Modern English may be illustrated by: |
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Time, name, house |
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Long-length, Full-fill, Blood – bleed |
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Father, hundred, heard |
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Bridge, chin, shirt |
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Man – men, foot-feet |
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The Great Vowel Shift put an end to all the changes in long vowels in: |
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Middle English |
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Common Germanic |
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Old English |
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Modern English |
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At the end of OE |
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The greatest event in the history of English that has left a major impact on the development of the English language was: |
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Norman conquest of Britain |
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Celtic settlements in Britain |
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Roman conquest of Britain |
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Scandinavian conquest of Britain |
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Iberian and Alpine settlements in Britain |
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The grammatical categories of the nominal system in Old English were: |
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case, gender, number |
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degrees of comparison, person, definiteness |
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case, gender |
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case, number |
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indefiniteness, case, gender |
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Which language is the most important among the East Germanic languages? |
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Gothic |
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Vandalic |
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Burgundian |
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Vandalic, Gothic |
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Burgundian, Vandalic |
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The Modern English word “oxen” is the trace of OE |
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root stem |
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consonantal declension |
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a – stem declension |
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vocalic declension |
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n- stem |
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Chaucer’s literary language is based on: |
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London dialect |
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Mercian dialect |
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Kentish dialect |
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Cornish dialect |
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Northern dialect |
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The greatest phonetic change that differentiated the Germanic from the Indo-European languages was: |
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Great Vowel Shift |
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Weakening of Unaccented Vowels |
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First Consonant Shift (Grimm’s and Verner’s Laws) |
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Vocalization of “R” 5) Palatal Multation |
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The plural noun ending of Modern English goes back to: |
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Nominative case of a – stem declension plural of strong declension |
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Nominative case of n- stem declension |
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Root stem declension |
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Nominative case of a – stem declension Singular of strong declension |
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Nominative case of jo-stem declension |
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Which language belongs to West Germanic group of languages? |
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English |
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Norwegian |
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Gothic |
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Scandinavian |
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Danish |