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The language a person spoke depended more on where they lived than on what class they were in. It is true that there was a class based distinction of language in England for a couple hundred years after the Norman conquest, with the nobility speaking French and the serfs speaking Old or Middle English. But in general, the serfs spoke languages that were ancestral to modern languages in much the same way that Old English was ancestral to English. The main difference was that there were more languages in those days. For example, among medieval Germanic languages, several have disappeared, including all East Germanic Language such as Burgundian, Gothic, and Vandalic.

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