Language Maps

14.1 Old English Dialects


1. Northumbrian

2. Mercian

3. West-Saxon

4. Kentish

This map is taken from: Charles Barber.
The English Language:
A Historical Introduction. Cambridge 1993:105.

14.2 Middle English Dialects


1. Northern

2.West-Midland

3.East-Midland

4. South-Western

5. South-Eastern

This map is taken from: Charles Barber.
The English Language:
A Historical Introduction. Cambridge 1993:137.

14.3 The Indo-European Languages

This diagram is not complete. You have to insert the missing languages yourself.

This diagram shows some of the relationships of the Indo-European languages in the arrangement of a family tree