OLD ENGLISH ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION

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1. OLD ENGLISH ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION
2. The coming of
3. Old English forms of the
4. P thorn P wynn (printed as
5. The letters v and z were not
6. By comparison with Modern English,
7. Ways of Reading Letter Z
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11. The Old English Phonetic Structure (Vowels)
12. The Old English Phonetic Structure (Consonants) Occlusive
13. Constrictive
14. Breaking x > ea
15. Palatal Mutation a
16. Exceptions from Palatal Mutation Palatal mutation
17. Double Mutation In words
18. Traces of Palatal Mutation in
19. 3. In some verbs formed from nouns
20. Back Umlaut Front vowels
21. Lengthening of Vowels1. The rejection of nasals
22. 2. The loss of /h/ before
23. 3. As a result of contraction: slaZan > sleaZan > sleaan > slean
24. Consonantal Changes Palatalisation of Initial
25. 3. Later the palatal consonants turned into
26. If the vowel was not
27. Changes of Vowels in Unstressed Syllable
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The coming of Christianity in 597 AD introduced Latin literacy to England, which was followed by attempts to render the English language in the letters of the

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Слайд 1 OLD ENGLISH ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION

Apart from the runic alphabet, which

had been used in earlier Germanic society for inscriptions on

all kinds of objects, from weapons to standing stones, the earliest speakers of English were pagan and illiterate.

OLD ENGLISH ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION Apart from the runic alphabet, which had been used in earlier

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The coming of Christianity in 597

AD introduced Latin literacy to England, which was followed by

attempts to render the English language in the letters of the Latin alphabet.

The coming of Christianity in 597 AD introduced Latin literacy to England, which

Слайд 3 Old English forms of the Latin letters were

very different from modern printed forms and in addition OE

used some letters no longer found in English:
D – eth, Z – yogh (it is printed as g in modern editions). These two letters were derived from Irish Latin.

Old English forms of the Latin letters were very different from modern printed forms and

Слайд 4 P thorn
P wynn (printed as w in modern

editions)
x ash (Latin digraph)

Thorn and eth are

equivalent to “th”
in the Modern spelling system.

P thorn P wynn (printed as w in modern editions) x ash (Latin digraph) Thorn

Слайд 5The letters v and z were not normally used in

OE texts, and their roles were filled by f and

s. The letters f and s stand for voiced fricatives between vowels / a vowel and a voiced consonant.
e.g. ofer [ 'Ovqr], risan ['rJzan]
The same with p and D: oDer ['LDqr], wyrpe ['wyrDq]