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The '''Anglo-Norman language''' is the name given to the [[variety (linguistics)|variety]] of the [[Norman language]] spoken by the [[Anglo-Norman]]s, the descendants of the [[Normans]] who ruled the [[Kingdom of England]] following the [[Norman Conquest of England|conquest]] by [[William I of England|William of Normandy]] in [[1066]]. This [[langue d'oïl]] became the official language of [[England]] and later developed into the unique insular dialect now known as the Angl(contracted; show full)

==Use and development==
The written records from the conquest onwards display certain striking features. In the first place, they are early: the first [[medieval]] [[French literature]] appears in England
 in this langue d'oïl, and some of the first non-literary [[document|documents]] in [[Old French]] (charters, etc.) are also in Anglo-Norman. The most likely explanation for this is that there was a long-standing insular tradition of vernacular writing of religious, literary and historical texts, which the newly-arrived Normans adopted.

(contracted; show full)== External links ==
*[http://www.anglo-norman.net/ The Anglo-Norman hub - a project to produce an AN dictionary.]  Contains articles and corpus texts.

[[Category:Oïl languages]]
[[Category:Medieval languages]]

[[de:Anglonormannisch]]
[[fr:Anglo-normand (langue)]]