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{{Short description|Extinct dialect of Old Norman French used in England}}
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| imagecaption     = Manuscript miniature of the coronation of [[Henry III of England|Henry III]], accompanied by a short account of his reign in Anglo-Norman prose
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'''Anglo-Norman''' ({{langx|nrf|Anglo-Normaund}}; {{Langx|fr|Anglo-normand}}), also known as '''Anglo-Norman French''' and part of '''the French of England''' (including Anglo-French) was a [[dialect]] of [[Old Norman]] that was used in [[Kingdom of England|England]] and, to a lesser extent, other places in Great Britain and Ireland during the [[Anglo-Normans|Anglo-Norman]] period.<ref>For a wide-ranging introduction to the language and its uses, see [https://archive.today/20120724052814/http://www.anglo-norman.net/sitedocs/main-intro.html Anglo-French and the AND] by [[William Rothwell]]</ref><ref>Ian Short, ''A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World'', "Language and Literature", Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2007. (p. 193)</ref>

== Origin ==

The term "Anglo-Norman" harks back to the time when the language was regarded as being primarily the regional dialect of the Norman settlers. Today the generic term "Anglo-French" is used instead to reflect not only the broader origin of the settlers who came with [[William the Conqueror]], but also the continued influence of [[Parisian French]] from the [[House of Plantagenet|Plantagenet period]] onwards.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anglo-French and the Anglo-Norman Dictionary|author-last=Rothwell|author-first=William|date=2006|url=https://anglo-norman.net/anglo-french/}}</ref>{{sfn|Upward|Davidson|2011|p=72}}

According to some linguists, the name '''Insular French''' might be more suitable, because "Anglo-Norman" is constantly associated with the notion of a [[mixed language]] based on English and Norman. According to some, such a mixed language never existed. Other sources, however, indicate that such a language did exist, and that it was the language descended from the [[Norman French]] originally established in England after the Conquest.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdjzn | jstor=10.7722/j.ctt9qdjzn | title=The Anglo-Norman Language and its Contexts | date=2010 | publisher=Boydell & Brewer | isbn=978-1-903153-30-7 }}</ref><ref>Geneviève Hasenohr, Le Jeu d'Adam, édition critique et traduction, Genève, Droz, 2017</ref>

Although Anglo-Norman and Anglo-French were eventually eclipsed by modern [[English language|English]], they had been used widely enough to influence English vocabulary permanently. This means that many original [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] words, cognates of which can still be found in [[North Germanic languages|Nordic]], [[German language|German]], and [[Dutch language|Dutch]], have been lost or, as is more often the case, exist alongside synonyms of Anglo-Norman French origin. [[Influence of French on English|Anglo-Norman had little lasting influence on English]] grammar, as opposed to vocabulary, although it is still evident in official and legal terms where the ordinary sequence of noun and adjective [[Postpositive adjective|is reversed]], as seen in phrases such as ''Blood Royal, attorney general, heir apparent, court martial, envoy extraordinary'' and ''body politic.''<ref>Amended version of: Crystal, David. ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language''. Cambridge University Press, 1995.</ref>

The [[royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom]] still features in French the mottos of both the [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|British Monarch]], {{lang|fr|[[Dieu et mon droit]]}} ("God and my right"), and the [[Order of the Garter]], ''[[Honi soit qui mal y pense]]'' ("Shamed be he who thinks evil of it").

''Dieu et mon droit'' was first used by [[Richard I of England|Richard I]] (who spoke Anglo-Norman, but cannot be proved to have been able to speak English) in 1198 and adopted as the royal motto of England in the time of [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]]. The motto appears below the shield of the Royal Coat of Arms.

==Use and development==
Though in regular use at the royal court, Anglo-French was not the main administrative language of England: Latin was the major language of record in legal and other official documents for most of the medieval period. However, from the mid-13th century to the early 15th century, Anglo-French was much used in law reports, charters, ordinances, official correspondence, and trade at all levels; it was the language of the King, his court and the upper class. There is evidence, too, that foreign words ([[Latin]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Arabic]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]]) often entered English via Anglo-Norman.

The language of later documents adopted some of the changes ongoing in continental French and lost many of its original dialectal characteristics, so ''Anglo-French'' remained (in at least some respects and at least at some social levels) part of the dialect continuum of modern French, often with distinctive spellings. Over time, the use of Anglo-French expanded into the fields of law, administration, commerce, and science, in all of which a rich documentary legacy survives, indicative of the vitality and importance of the language.

By the late 15th century, however, what remained of insular French had become heavily anglicised: see [[Law French]]. It continued to be known as "Norman French" until the end of the 19th century even though, philologically, there was nothing Norman about it.<ref>Pollock and Maitland, p. 87 note 3.</ref>

Among important writers of the Anglo-Norman cultural commonwealth is [[Marie de France]].

The languages and literature of the [[Channel Islands]] are sometimes referred to as Anglo-Norman, but that usage is derived from the French name for the islands: ''les îles anglo-normandes''. The variety of French spoken in the islands is related to the modern [[Norman language]], and distinct from the Anglo-Norman of medieval England.

==Trilingualism in medieval and modern England==

=== General history in medieval England ===
Many of the earliest documents in [[Old French]] are found in England. In medieval [[France]], it was not usual to write in the [[vernacular]]: Because [[Medieval Latin|Latin]] was the language of the [[Roman Catholic Church#Medieval and Renaissance periods|Church]], [[Medieval university|education]], and [[historiography]], it was also used for records. In medieval England, Latin also remained in use by the Church, the royal government, and much local administration in parallel with [[Middle English]], as it had been before 1066. The early {{when|date=February 2018}} adoption of Anglo-Norman as a written and literary language probably owes something to this history of [[bilingualism]] in writing.{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}}

In the first centuries after the Norman Conquest of England, the French-speaking elite primarily relied on Latin for record-keeping rather than their own language, while English continued to have a written tradition and was used in religious services until 1154, when the Angevins came into power. Englishmen seeking words associated with government, culture, or entertainment would likely use French terms in their English speech to operate in upper-middle-class social settings would not only learn some French but also imitate the Frenchified English of bilingual speakers.

Nevertheless, educated Englishmen in the 12th and 13th centuries could read and speak French to some extent. This explains why the first French loanwords entering English were introduced through written texts and passive knowledge of the language rather than active use. However, as French began to be used for record-keeping in England due to its growing prestige during the mid-13th century, approximately 90% of the total 10,000 French loanwords in English began to be documented in the language.{{sfn|Upward|Davidson|2011|p=67–68}}

Around the same time, as a shift took place in France towards using French as a language of record in the mid-13th century, Anglo-Norman also became a language of record in England, although Latin retained its pre-eminence for matters of permanent record (as in written [[chronicle]]s). From around this point onwards, considerable variation begins to be apparent in Anglo-Norman, which ranges from the very local (and most [[anglicise]]d) to a level of language which approximates to and is sometimes indistinguishable from varieties of continental French. Typically, therefore, local records are rather different from continental French, with diplomatic and international trade documents closest to the emerging continental norm. English remained the vernacular of the common people throughout this period. The resulting virtual [[multilingualism|trilingualism]] in spoken and written language was one of medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rothwell |first=William |date=1976 |title=The Role of French in Thirteenth-Century England |url=https://anglo-norman.net/the-role-of-french-in-thirteenth-century-england/ |access-date=2 February 2025 |website=Anglo-Norman Dictionary}}</ref><ref>See Lusignan, 2005; Trotter, 2009.</ref>

=== Language of the king and his court ===
From the time of the [[Norman conquest of England|Norman Conquest]] (1066) until the end of the 14th century, French was the language of the king and his court. During this period, marriages with French princesses reinforced the royal family's ties to French culture. Nevertheless, during the 13th century, intermarriages with [[English nobility]] became more frequent. French became progressively a second language among the upper classes. Moreover, with the [[Hundred Years' War]] and the growing spirit of English and French nationalism, the status of French diminished.

French (specifically [[Old French]]) was the mother tongue of every [[English king]] from [[William the Conqueror]] (1066–1087) until [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]] (1399–1413). Henry IV was the first to take the oath in ([[Middle English|Middle]]) English, and his son, [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] (1413–1422), was the first to write in English. By the end of the 15th century, French became the second language of a cultivated elite.<ref name="Lusignan">Lusignan, Serge. ''La langue des rois au Moyen Âge : Le français en France et en Angleterre''. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004.</ref>

=== Language of the royal charters and legislation ===
Until the end of the 13th century, [[Latin]] was the main language of all official written documents. Nevertheless, some important documents had their official Norman translation, such as [[Magna Carta]] of 1215. The first official document written in Anglo-Norman was a statute promulgated by the king in 1275. With effect from the 13th century, Anglo-Norman therefore became used in official documents, such as those that were marked by the [[Lord Privy Seal|private seal]] of the king whereas the documents sealed by the [[Lord Chancellor]] were written in Latin until the end of the Middle Ages. English became the language of [[Parliament]] and of legislation in the 15th century, half a century after it had become the language of the king and most of the English nobility.<ref name="Lusignan" />

=== Language of administration and justice ===
During the 11th century, development of the administrative and judicial institutions took place. Because the king and the lawyers at the time normally used French, it also became the language of these institutions.<ref name="Lusignan" /> 

During the late 14th century, English became the main spoken language, but Latin and French continued to be exclusively used in official legal documents until the beginning of the 18th century. Nevertheless, the French language used in England changed from the end of the 15th century into [[Law French]], that was used since the 13th century.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Laske |first=Caroline |date=2016-04-01 |title=Losing touch with the common tongues – the story of law French |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijld-2016-0002/html |journal=International Journal of Legal Discourse |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=169–192 |doi=10.1515/ijld-2016-0002 |issn=2364-883X|hdl=1854/LU-7239351 |s2cid=159795576 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> This variety of French was a technical language, with a specific vocabulary, where English words were used to describe everyday experience, and French grammatical rules and morphology gradually declined, with confusion of genders and the adding of ''-s'' to form all plurals. Law French was banished from the courts of the [[common law]] in 1731, almost three centuries after the king ceased speaking primarily French. French was used on moots in the [[Inner Temple]] until 1779.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stephens |first=Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQIaBwAAQBAJ&dq=french+law+language+1731&pg=PA40 |title=A Study in Legal History Volume II; The Last of England: Lord Denning's Englishry and the Law |date=2009-10-02 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-1560-4 |language=en}}</ref>

Anglo-Norman has survived in the political system in the use of certain Anglo-French set phrases in the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]], where they are written by hand on [[Bill (law)|bills]] by the [[Clerk of the Parliaments]] or [[Clerk of the House of Commons]] to endorse them during their progress to becoming law, or spoken aloud by the Clerk of the Parliaments during a gathering of the [[Lords Commissioners]], to indicate the granting of [[Royal Assent]] to legislation.<ref>{{cite book
| url = https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldcomp/compso2017/compso20.htm
| title = Companion to the Standing Orders and guide to the Proceedings of the House of Lords
| chapter = Appendix F: Royal Assent by Commission
| publisher = [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]
| year = 2017
| access-date = 18 April 2022
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| url = https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldcomp/compso2017/compso22.htm
| title = Companion to the Standing Orders and guide to the Proceedings of the House of Lords
| chapter = Appendix H: Endorsements to Bills
| publisher = [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]
| year = 2017
| access-date = 18 April 2022
}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
| last = Bennion
| first = Francis
| author-link = Francis Bennion
| title = Modern Royal Assent Procedure at Westminster
| url = http://www.francisbennion.com/word/fb/1981/1981-011-royal-assent-procedure.doc
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070316103344/http://www.francisbennion.com/word/fb/1981/1981-011-royal-assent-procedure.doc
| archive-format = Microsoft Word 97-2003 document
| archive-date = 16 March 2007
| journal = [[Statute Law Review]]
| date = 1 October 1981
| volume = 2
| issue = 3
| pages = 133–147
| url-status = usurped
| doi = 10.1093/slr/2.3.133
| url-access = subscription
}}</ref>

{|
|-
! Event
! Anglo-Norman phrase
! English translation
|-
| [[House of Lords]] bill sent to [[House of Commons]]
| ''Soit baillé aux Communes.''
| Let it be sent to the Commons.
|-
| Lords bill agreed to by Commons without amendment
| ''A ceste Bille les Communes sont assentus.''
| To this bill the Commons have assented.
|-
| Lords bill agreed to by Commons with amendments
| ''A ceste Bille avecque des Amendemens'' (or ''avecque une Amendement'') ''les Communes sont assentus.''
| To this bill with [an] amendment[s] the Commons have assented.
|-
| Lords bill agreed to by Lords, after Commons then Lords have amended it (see [[Parliamentary ping-pong]])
| ''A ceste Amendement'' (or ''ces Amendemens'') ''avecque une Amendement'' (or ''des Amendemens'') ''les Seigneurs sont assentus.''
| To all these amendments the Lords have assented.
|-
| Lords disagree with the Commons
| ''Ceste Bille est remise aux Communes avecque des Raisons'' (or ''une Raison'')''.''
| This bill is returned to the Commons with [a] reason[s].
|-
| Commons bill sent to Lords
| ''Soit baillé aux Seigneurs.''
| Let it be sent to the Lords.
|-
| Commons bill returned with Lords' amendments
| ''A ceste Bille avecque des Amendemens'' (or ''une Amendement'') ''les Seigneurs sont assentus.''
| To this bill with [an] amendment[s] the Lords have assented.
|-
| Supply bill returned to Commons agreed pending Royal Assent by Commission
| ''A ceste Bille les Seigneurs sont assentus.''
| To this bill the Lords have assented.
|-
| Royal Assent is given for a public bill 
| ''[[Le Roy le veult|Le Roy/La Reyne le veult]].''
| The King/Queen wills it.
|-
| Royal Assent is given for a [[supply bill]]
| ''Le Roy/La Reyne remercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence et ainsi le veult.''
| The King/Queen thanks his/her good subjects, accepts their bounty, and wills it so.
|-
| Royal Assent is given for a private bill
| ''Soit fait comme il est désiré.''
| Let it be done as it is desired.
|-
| Royal Assent is withheld
| ''Le Roy/La Reyne s'avisera.''
| The King/Queen will consider it.
|}

The exact spelling of these phrases has varied over the years; for example, ''s'avisera'' has been spelled as ''s'uvisera'' and ''s'advisera'', and ''Reyne'' as ''Raine''.

=== Language of the people ===
Though the great mass of ordinary people spoke forms of English, French spread as a second language due to its prestige, encouraged by its long-standing use in the school system as a medium of instruction through which Latin was taught. In the courts, the members of the [[jury]], who represented the population, had to know French in order to understand the plea of the lawyer. French was used by the merchant middle class as a language of business communication, especially when it traded with the continent, and several churches used French to communicate with lay people.<ref name="Lusignan" /> A small but important number of documents survive associated with the Jews of medieval England, some featuring Anglo-French written in [[Hebrew]] script, typically in the form of [[gloss (annotation)|gloss]]es to the Hebrew scriptures.<ref name="Fuderman" >Fuderman{{full citation needed|date=August 2021}}</ref>

==Characteristics==
{{More citations needed section|date=August 2024}}
As a ''[[langue d'oïl]]'', Anglo-Norman developed collaterally to the central [[Old French]] dialects which would eventually become [[Paris]]ian French in terms of [[grammar]], [[pronunciation]] and [[vocabulary]]. Before the signature of the ''[[Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts]]'' in 1539, French was not standardised as an administrative language throughout the kingdom of France.

[[Middle English]] was heavily influenced by Anglo-Norman and, later, Anglo-French. W. Rothwell has called Anglo-French 'the [[Transitional fossil#Missing links|missing link]]' because many etymological [[dictionary|dictionaries]] seem to ignore the contribution of that language in English and because Anglo-Norman and Anglo-French can explain the transmission of words from French into English and fill the void left by the absence of documentary records of English (in the main) between 1066 and {{Circa|1380}}.<ref>Rothwell, W. (1991), "The missing link in English etymology: Anglo-French", ''Medium Aevum'', 60, 173–96.</ref>

Anglo-Norman continued to evolve significantly during the Middle Ages by reflecting some of the changes undergone by the northern dialects of mainland French. For example, early Anglo-Norman legal documents used the phrase "del roy" (of the king), whereas by about 1330 it had become "du roi" as in modern French.<ref>{{cite web|title= Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII/1 |url= https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xiii!1_f005r |work=	Les roys de Engeltere |access-date=1 June 2023 |quote=Five rectangles of red linen, formerly used as curtains for the miniatures.ff. 3–6: Eight miniatures of the kings of England from Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) to Edward I (r. 1272–1307); each one except the last is accompanied by a short account of their reign in Anglo-Norman prose. "del Roy Phylippe de Fraunce" | year=1280–1300 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Textbook on Legal Language and Legal Writing
| author=Bhatia, K. L. | publisher=Universal Law Publishers | year=2010 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wg1dvc2lfcEC | page=260 | isbn=978-8175348943}}</ref>

Anglo-Norman [[morphology (linguistics)|morphology]] and [[phonology]] can be deduced from its heritage in English. Mostly, it is done in comparison with continental Central French. English has many [[doublet (linguistics)|doublet]]s as a result of this contrast: 
* ''warranty – guarantee''
* ''warden – guardian''
* ''catch – chase'' (see below)

Compare also: 
* ''wage'' (Anglo-Norman) – {{Lang|fr|gage}} (French)
* ''wait'' – ''guetter'' (French, Old French ''guaitier'')
* ''war'' (from Anglo-Norman ''werre'') – {{Lang|fr|guerre}} (French)
* ''wicket'' (Anglo-Norman) – {{Lang|fr|guichet}} (French, from Norman)

The [[palatalization (sound change)|palatalization]] of [[velar consonant]]s before the front vowel produced different results in Norman to the central ''langue d'oïl'' dialects that developed into French. English therefore, for example, has ''fashion'' from Norman ''féchoun'' as opposed to Modern French ''façon'' (both developing from Latin ''factio, factiōnem''). In contrast, the palatalization of velar consonants before {{IPA|/a/}} that affected the development of French did not occur in Norman dialects north of the [[Joret line]]. English has therefore inherited words that retain a velar [[plosive]] where French has a [[fricative]]:

{| border="0"
!English!!< Norman!!= French
|-
|''cabbage''||< ''caboche''||= ''chou, caboche''
|-
|''castle''||< ''caste(-l)''||= ''château''
|-
|''cauldron''||< ''caudron''||= ''chaudron''
|-
|''causeway''||< ''cauchie''||= ''chaussée'' 
|-
|''catch''||< ''cachi''||= ''chasser'' 
|-
|''cattle''||< ''*cate(-l)''||= ''cheptel'' (Old French ''chetel'')
|-
|''fork''||< ''fouorque''||= ''fourche''
|-
|''garden''||< ''gardin''||= ''jardin''
|-
|''kennel''||< ''kenil''||= ''chenil'' (Vulgar Latin ''*canile'')
|-
|''wicket''||< ''viquet''||= ''guichet''
|-
|''plank''||< ''planque''||= ''planche, planque''
|-
|''pocket''||< ''pouquette''||= ''poche''
|}

Some loans were palatalised later in English, as in the case of ''challenge'' (< Old Norman {{lang|xno|calonge}}, Middle English {{lang|enm|kalange, kalenge}}, later {{lang|enm|chalange}}; Old French {{lang|fro|challenge, chalonge}}).

There were also vowel differences: Compare Anglo-Norman ''profound'' with Parisian French ''profond'', ''soun'' sound with ''son'', ''round'' with ''rond''.  The former words were originally pronounced something like 'profoond', 'soon', 'roond' respectively (compare the similarly [[nasal stop|denasalised]] vowels of modern Norman), but later developed their modern pronunciation in English. The word ''veil'' retains the {{IPA|/ei/}} (as does modern Norman in ''vaile'' and ''laîsi'') that in French has been replaced by {{IPA|/wa/}} ''voile'', ''loisir''.

Since many words established in Anglo-Norman from French via the intermediary of Norman were not subject to the processes of sound change that continued in parts of the continent, English sometimes preserves earlier pronunciations. For example, ''ch'' used to be {{IPA|/tʃ/}} in medieval French, where Modern French has {{IPA|/ʃ/}}, but English has preserved the older sound (in words like ''chamber, chain, chase'' and ''exchequer''). Similarly, ''j'' had an older {{IPA|/dʒ/}} sound, which it still has in English and some dialects of modern Norman, but it has developed into {{IPA|/ʒ/}} in Modern French.

The word ''mushroom'' preserves a hush [[Sibilant consonant|sibilant]] not recorded in French {{Lang|fr|mousseron}}, as does ''cushion'' for ''coussin''. Conversely, the pronunciation of the word ''sugar'' resembles Norman ''chucre'' even if the spelling is closer to French ''sucre''. It is possible that the original sound was an [[apical consonant|apical]] sibilant, like the [[Basque language|Basque]] ''s'', which is halfway between a hissing sibilant and a hushing sibilant.

The doublets ''[[wikt:catch|catch]]'' and ''[[wiktionary:Chase|chase]]'' are both derived from Low Latin ''*captiare''. ''Catch'' demonstrates a Norman development while ''chase'' is the French equivalent imported with a different meaning.

Distinctions in meaning between Anglo-Norman and French have led to many ''[[False friends|faux ami]]s'' (words having similar form but different meanings) in Modern English and Modern French.

Although it is a Romance language, Norman contains a significant amount of lexical material from [[Old Norse language|Old Norse]]. Because of this, some of the words introduced to England as part of Anglo-Norman were of Germanic origin. Indeed, sometimes one can identify cognates such as ''flock'' (Germanic in English existing prior to the Conquest) and ''floquet'' (Germanic in Norman). The case of the word ''mug'' demonstrates that in instances, Anglo-Norman may have reinforced certain Scandinavian elements already present in English. ''Mug'' had been introduced into northern English dialects by [[Viking]] settlement. The same word had been established in Normandy by the Normans (Norsemen) and was then brought over after the Conquest and established firstly in southern English dialects. It is, therefore, argued that the word ''mug'' in English shows some of the complicated Germanic heritage of Anglo-Norman.

Many expressions used in English today have their origin in Anglo-Norman (such as the expression ''before-hand'', which derives from Anglo-Norman ''avaunt-main''), as do many modern words with interesting etymologies. ''[[Mortgage loan|Mortgage]]'', for example, literally meant ''death-wage'' in Anglo-Norman. ''[[Curfew]]'' (fr. ''[[couvre-feu]]'') meant ''cover-fire'', referring to the time in the evening when all fires had to be covered to prevent the spread of fire within communities with timber buildings.<ref>''Bailey's Dictionary'', fifth edition, 1731.</ref> The word ''glamour'' is derived from Anglo-Norman ''grammeire'', the same word which gives us modern ''grammar''; ''glamour'' meant first "book learning" and then the most glamorous form of book learning, "magic" or "magic spell" in medieval times.

The influence of Anglo-Norman was very asymmetrical: very little influence from English was carried over into the continental possessions of the Anglo-Norman kings. Some administrative terms survived in some parts of mainland Normandy: {{lang|xno|forlenc}} (from ''furrow'', compare ''[[furlong]]'') in the [[Cotentin Peninsula]] and [[Bessin]], and a general use of the word ''[[acre]]'' (instead of French ''arpent'') for [[land measurement]] in Normandy until [[metrication]] in the 19th century, but these words are probably linguistic traces of Saxon or [[Anglo-Scandinavian]] settlements between the 4th and the 10th centuries in Normandy. Otherwise the direct influence of English in mainland Norman (such as ''smogler'' "to smuggle") is from direct contact with English in later centuries, rather than Anglo-Norman.

== Literature ==
{{see also|Anglo-Norman literature}}
When the [[Normans]] conquered England, [[Anglo-Saxon literature]] had reached a very high level of development. The important [[Benedictine]] monasteries both wrote chronicles and guarded other works in [[Old English]]. However, with the arrival of the Normans, Anglo-Saxon literature came to an end and literature written in Britain was in Latin or Anglo-Norman. The [[Plantagenet]] kings encouraged this [[Anglo-Norman literature]]. Nevertheless, from the beginning of the 14th century, some authors chose to write in English, such as [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]. The authors of that period were influenced by the works of contemporary French writers whose language was prestigious. Chaucer - himself of Norman origin - is considered to be the father of the English language and the creator of English as a literary language.<ref name="Lusignan" />

== Influence on English ==
{{main|Influence of French on English }}
[[File:Origins of English PieChart 2D.svg|thumb|250px|According to one study, about 28% of English [[vocabulary]] comes from French, including Anglo-French. Such percentages vary greatly depending on what amount of rare and technical words are included in the calculation.]]
The major [[Influence of French on English |Norman-French influence on English]] can still be seen in today's vocabulary. An enormous number of Norman-French and other medieval French [[loanwords]] came into the language, and about three-quarters of them are still used today. Very often, the Norman or French word supplanted the original English term, or both words would co-exist but with slightly different nuances. In other cases, the Norman or French word was adopted to signify a new reality, such as ''judge'', ''castle'', ''warranty''.<ref name="Lusignan" />

In general, the Norman and French borrowings concerned the fields of culture, aristocratic life, politics and religion, and war whereas the English words were used to describe everyday experience. When the Normans arrived in England, their copyists wrote English as they heard it, without realising the peculiarities of the relationship between Anglo-Saxon pronunciation and spelling and so the spelling changed. There appeared different regional Modern-English written dialects, the one that the king chose in the 15th century becoming the standard variety.

In some remote areas, agricultural terms used by the rural workers may have been derived from Norman French. An example is the Cumbrian term ''sturdy'' for diseased sheep that walk in circles, derived from ''étourdi'' meaning dizzy.<ref>Rollinson, William (1987). ''Life and Tradition in the Lake District''. Dalesman. p. 82. {{ISBN|0852068859}}.</ref>

== Influence in Ireland ==
The [[Norman invasion of Ireland]], beginning on 1st May 1169 at [[Bannow Bay]], led to Anglo-Norman control of much of the island. Norman-speakers arrived to administrate the [[Angevin Empire]]'s new territory. Several Norman words were borrowed into [[Irish language|Irish]], including household terms: {{wikt-lang|ga|garsún}} (from Norman {{wikt-lang|xno|garçun}}, "boy"); {{wikt-lang|ga|cóta}} ({{wikt-lang|xno|cote}}, "cloak"); {{wikt-lang|ga|hata}} ({{lang|xno|hatte}}, "hat"); {{wikt-lang|ga|gairdín}} ({{wikt-lang|xno|gardin}}, "garden"); and terms relating to justice (Irish {{wikt-lang|ga|giúistís}}, {{wikt-lang|ga|bardas}} (corporation), {{wikt-lang|ga|cúirt}} (court)). 

Place-names in Norman are few, but there is [[Buttevant]] (from the motto of the Barry family: {{lang|xno|Boutez en avant}}, "Push to the fore"), the village of [[Brittas, Dublin|Brittas]] (from the Norman {{wikt-lang|xno|bretesche}}, "boarding, planking") and the element ''Pallas'' (Irish {{wikt-lang|ga|pailís}}, from Norman {{wikt-lang|xno|paleis}}, "boundary fence": compare [[palisade]] and [[The Pale]]).<ref>[http://www.logainm.ie/en/s?txt=Pallas&str=on 'Pallas' {{!}} Logainm.ie]</ref> Others exist with English and Irish roots, such as [[Castletownroche]], which combines the English ''Castletown'' and the Norman {{lang|xno|Roche}}, meaning rock.

Only a handful of Hiberno-Norman-French texts survive, most notably ''[[The Song of Dermot and the Earl]]'', a {{lang|fr|[[chanson de geste]]}}  (early 13th century), and the [[Statutes of Kilkenny]] from 1366.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucc.ie/celt/frpage.html |title=Medieval and early modern French Texts at CELT |website=ucc.ie }}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Anglo-Norman literature]]
* [[Anglo-Norman Text Society]]
* [[Influence of French on English]]
* [[Law French]]
* [[Middle English creole hypothesis]]
* [[Guernésiais]]
* [[Jèrriais]]
* [[Auregnais]]
* [[Sercquiais]]
* {{sectionlink|Blazon|French vocabulary and grammar}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A XIII/1 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xiii!1_f005v]{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "Les roys de Engeltere" (Five rectangles of red linen, formerly used as curtains for the miniatures.ff. 3–6: Eight miniatures of the kings of England from Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) to Edward I (r. 1272–1307); each one except the last is accompanied by a short account of their reign in Anglo-Norman prose." "Roy Phylippe de Fraunce" "en englerere: le Roy Jon regna."), (1272–1307).
* De Wilde, Geert et al. (eds.), [http://www.anglo-norman.net/gate/ "Anglo-Norman Dictionary"] (= AND), on lin[http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100511024514/http://www.anglo-norman.net/]e. 
* Kelham, ''Dictionary of the Norman or Old French Language'' (1779) (very outdated)
* [[F. W. Maitland|Pollock and Maitland]], ''History of English Law'', 2nd edition: Cambridge 1898, pp.&nbsp;80–87.

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==External links==
* [http://www.anglo-norman.net The Revised Anglo-Norman Dictionary (A-S), with the entries from the first edition, for T-Z] is freely available online. The site, formerly known as ''The Anglo-Norman hub'', also provides a searchable textbase of more than 70 Anglo-Norman texts, selected publications by the editorial team, a general introduction to Anglo-Norman and a bibliography off all Anglo-Norman primary sources.
*[http://www.anglo-norman-texts.net/ The Anglo-Norman Text Society publishes a wide range of works written in Anglo-Norman]
*{{Cite web |url=http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/research/collections/anglo-norman-corpus |title=The Anglo-Norman Correspondence Corpus at Birmingham City University |access-date=2012-03-21 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121222212412/http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/research/collections/anglo-norman-corpus |archive-date=2012-12-22 |url-status=dead }}
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