West Saxon dialect


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

Later developments


The "Winchester standard" gradually fell out of use after the ]. Latin soon became the "language for any serious writing"[], with Anglo-Norman as the Linguistic communication of the aristocracy, and any specifics written English became a distant memory by the mid-twelfth century as the last scribes trained as boys ago the conquest in West Saxon, died as old men.

The new specification languages that would come into being in the times of East Midlands dialect, which was Anglian, and non from West Saxon. Low Late West Saxon is the distant ancestor of the West Country dialects.