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Most Old English consonants are pronounced the same way as their Modern English equivalents. We give the exceptions below. Some editors indicate the sibilant pronunciation of "c" by putting a dot above the consonant. Before certain vowels it is pronounced like the Modern English "y" in the word "yes": gifu. When "g" is used before other vowels it is pronounced the same as Modern English "g" in "golden": goda. Some editors indicate this voiced pronunciation of "g" by putting a dot above the consonant.
It is pronounced with a bit of a throat-clearing sound, like the "ch" at the end of Scottish "loch" or German "Bach": dryhten. Shakespeare and other writers filled in the gaps and still do , inventing words where they were lacking. There are many technical reasons for this, but to put it in plain terms: if English were a body, Anglo-Saxon might be the bones and ligaments: not only for the hardness of its consonants and its blunt, unadorned poetry, but because it contains the most common words in the language, the structural bits that hold together all those pan-linguistic borrowings.
Despite sharing many words with modern English, however, Anglo Saxon is another language, from an entirely different world long disappeared. No one living, of course, knows exactly what it sounded like, so scholars make their best educated guesses using internal evidence in the scant literature , secondary sources in other languages from the time, and similarities to other, living languages.
In the video at the top, student of the language Stephen Roper reenacts a casual conversation with an Anglo-Saxon speaker, one who can understand but cannot speak contemporary English. The other examples here come from literary contexts.
Further up, Justin A. But if you feel confident after listening to these speculative reconstructions of the language, enough to take a crack at reading it aloud yourself, head over this University of Glasgow collection of Old English readings. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC.
Follow him at jdmagness. We accept Paypal, Venmo, Patreon, even Crypto! To donate, click here. We thank you! Your description of the history of English, like many others, looks at it from the point of Modern English only.
Also, please note a profound influence from contact with Scandinavian in the Viking age. From what little I could follow of that guy in the first video above, it sounded like he was speaking Dutch, or maybe Frisian. What was the story with him? What was he actually speaking? Indeed, the intonations sounded Scandinavian. Just want to support the other commenters and say I also felt a Germanic and a Nordic strong influence in hearing this old English.
Anyway thanks for the informative article!! Name required.
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