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Anglo-Norman language
{{Infobox Language
| name = Norman
| familycolor = Indo-European
| nativename = Normand
| region = [[Channel Islands]] and historically in [[England]]
| fam2 = [[Italic languages|Italic]]
| fam3 = [[Romance languages|Romance]]
| fam4 = [[Italo-Western languages|Italo-Western]]
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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 /
tʃ{{IPA|tʃ}}/ in Medieval French;  Modern French has /ʃ{{IPA|ʃ}}/ but English has preserved the older sound (in words like chamber, chain, chase and exchequer).  

Similarly, 'j' had an older /dʒ{{IPA|dʒ}}/ sound (which it still has in English and some dialects of modern Norman) but has developed into /ʒ{{IPA|ʒ}}/ in Modern French.

The words ''veil'' and  ''leisure'' retain the /ei/ (as does modern Norman in ''vaile'' and ''laîsi'') that in French has been replaced by /wa/:/ ''voile'', ''loisir''.

The word ''mushroom'' preserves a hush [[Sibilant consonant|sibilant]] in ''mousseron'' not recorded in French orthography, as does ''cushion'' for ''coussin''. Conversely, the pronunciation of the word ''sugar'' resembles Norman ''chucre'' even if the spelling is closer to French ''sucre''.

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

[[Category:Norman language]]
[[Category:Medieval languages]]
[[Category:Extinct Romance languages]]

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