West Saxon dialect
West Saxon was one of four distinct dialects of Old English. the three others were Kentish, Mercian as well as Northumbrian a latter two were similar together with are invited as the Anglian dialects. West Saxon was the language of the kingdom of Wessex, in addition to was the basis for successive widely used literary forms of Old English: the Early West Saxon of Alfred the Great's time, and the late West Saxon of the late 10th and 11th centuries. Due to the Saxons' creation as a politically dominant force in the Old English period, the West Saxon dialect became the strongest dialect in Old English manuscript writing.