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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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Anglo-Norman [[morphology (linguistics)|morphology]] and pronunciation can be deduced from its heritage in English.  Mostly this is done in comparison with continental French.  English has many [[doublet (linguistics)|doublet]]s as a result of this contrast: 
*  ''warranty - guarantee''
* ''ward - guard''
* ''warden - guardian''
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* ''glamour - grammar'' (see below)

Compare also: 
*''wage'' (Anglo-Norman) - ''gage'' (French)
*''wait'' - ''guetter'' (French)
* ''war'' (from AN ''werre'') - ''guerre'' (French)
*''wicket'' (Anglo-Norman) - ''guichet'' (French)

(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)]]