![]() Phonemes not shown here may appear within pronunciations representing other stages or varieties of Middle English.Īdditionally, our knowledge of Middle English pronunciation leaves much to be desired one major difficulty is the paucity of contemporary sources covering it, though the Ormulum is invaluable here. Unless otherwise noted, the pronunciation shown here and given in entries represents the language of Chaucer, London Middle English of the late 1300s and the early 1400s. Note that Middle English is not a single uniform language the term refers to the multifarious varieties of English spoken in Britain from 1100–1500 C.E., meaning there was plenty of variation and change in pronunciation across time and space. ![]() ![]() The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Middle English pronunciations in Wiktionary articles. ![]()
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