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==History== | ==History== | ||
The first attested text in Modern Crannish is a fragment of a gloss, translation and explanation of the Jewish Haggadah, dated to the 14th century. Non-rhoticity, gender loss, and the shift to auxiliaries were complete by this time, and Crannish has had little change since except in vocabulary, accent, and the loss of grammatical mutation. | The first attested text in Modern Crannish is a fragment of a gloss, translation and explanation of the Jewish Haggadah found in France, dated to the 14th century. Non-rhoticity, gender loss, and the shift to auxiliaries were complete by this time, and Crannish has had little change since except in vocabulary, accent, and the loss of grammatical mutation. | ||
An in-universe theory holds that Crannish played a key role in the evolution of nonrhoticity in Southern British English. However, this is not widely accepted, as the loss of rhoticity occurred earlier in Crannish. | An in-universe theory holds that Crannish played a key role in the evolution of nonrhoticity in Southern British English. However, this is not widely accepted, as the loss of rhoticity occurred earlier in Crannish. | ||