Kentish (Anglo-Saxon)

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Kentish was spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was part one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being Mercian, Northumbrian (known collectively as the Anglian dialects), and West Saxon.

The dialect was spoken in what is now the modern-day county of Kent, southern Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by the Jutes.

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