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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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==Use and development==
The written records from the conquest onwards display certain striking features. In the first place, they are early: the first [[mediæval]] [[French literature]] appears in England in this langue d'oïl, and some of the first non-literary [[document
|documents]]s 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.

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[[Category:Norman language]]
[[Category:Norman and Medieval England|Language]]
[[Category:Medieval languages]]
[[Category:Extinct Romance languages]]

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