Shared Language - Vernacular Manuscripts of the Middle Ages

A miscellany is a multi-text manuscript, made up of mixed contents, often in a ... of vernacular languages used in Britain in the later Middle Ages (Anglo-French, ...

These circumstances are a contrast between a vernacular and language variant used by the same speakers. According to one school of linguistic thought, all such variants are examples of a linguistic phenomenon termed diglossia ("split tongue", on the model of the genetic anomaly [6]). In it, the language is bifurcated; i.e., the speaker learns two forms of the language and ordinarily uses one

A miscellany is a multi-text manuscript, made up of mixed contents, often in a ... of vernacular languages used in Britain in the later Middle Ages (Anglo-French, ...

bound together by the common use of the Latin language and by the common dominion ... The Most Significant Manuscript Sources of Medieval Croatian Vernacular Verse ... Middle Ages, and so did the languages: Latin, Old Church. Slavonic ... Vernacular manuscript miscellanies in late medieval Britain ... in vernacular British languages: Middle English, Anglo-French, Older Scots, Middle Welsh). Cover ...

A vernacular, or vernacular language, is the speech variety used in everyday life by the general population in a geographical or social territory. The vernacular is contrasted with higher-prestige forms of language, such as national, literary, liturgical or scientific idiom, or a lingua franca, used to facilitate communication across a large area.The vernacular is usually native, normally The first vernacular grammars in Europe : the …