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{{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]]
(contracted; show full)rly: 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.

Among important writers of the Anglo-Norman cultural commonwealth are the [[Jersey]]-born poet, [[
Robert Wace|Wace]], and [[Marie de France]]. The [[Anglo-Norman literature|literature of the Anglo-Norman period]] forms the reference point for subsequent literature in the [[Norman language]], especially in the [[19th century]] Norman literary revival and even into the [[20th century]] in the case of André Dupont's ''Épopée cotentine''. The languages and literatures of the [[Channel Islands]] are sometimes still referred to as Anglo-Norman.

(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)]]