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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)rman is used for complex administrative matters and indeed affairs of state, at home and abroad. At an international level, many Anglo-Norman diplomatic documents are virtually indistinguishable from the products of the [[Paris Chancery]] - a fact which (together with the substantial evidence of the use of Anglo-Norman in [[Gascony]]) rather undermines the notion, still current, that the insular variety of French was cut off from its continental roots after the loss of continental [[Normandy]] in [[1204]].
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On the other hand, [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] suggests that significant differences existed between the French of England and the French of France; introducing the character of the [[Prioress]] in the [[General Prologue]] of ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', Chaucer writes:

:''And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,<br>After the scole of [[Bow, London|Stratford atte Bowe]],<br>For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe.'' 

Yet as well as continuing as a written language of record for all sorts of purposes right through the Middle Ages (and in the case of ''[[Law French]]'', beyond), in a determinedly multilingual context, it is clear that Anglo-Norman must also have penetrated sufficiently into all social classes to ensure numerous borrowings into various English [[dialect]]s. On the one hand the bulk of the Anglo-Norman influence on the lexis of English can probably be attributed to the [[trilingual]] [(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)]]