What is Middle English?
{{Infobox language | name = Middle English | nativename = Englisch, Inglis, English | region = [[England]], some parts of [[Wales]], [[Scotland|south east Scotland and Scottish burghs]], to some extent [[Ireland]] | era = developed into [[Early Modern English]], [[Scots language|Scots]], and [[Yola language|Yola]] and [[Fingallian]] in [[Ireland]] by the 16th century | image = Chaucer-canterburytales-miller.jpg | imagesize = 250px | imagecaption = A page from [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] | fam3 = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]] | fam4 = [[Ingvaeonic languages|North Sea Germanic]] | fam5 = [[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]] | fam6 = [[Anglic languages|Anglic]] | ancestor = [[Proto-Indo-European]] | iso2 = enm | iso3 = enm | glotto = midd1317 | glottorefname = Middle English | iso6 = meng | notice = IPA | ancestor2 = [[Proto-Germanic]] | ancestor3 = [[Old English]] | script = [[Latin]] }} '''Middle English''' or '''ME'''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Introduction to Middle English|last=Horobin|first=Simon|year=2016|location=Edinburgh}}</ref> is an older type of the [[English language]] that was spoken after the [[Norman conquest of England|Norman invasion]] in [[1066]] until the [[1500s]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDBF5TJZHzQC&dq=middle+english&pg=PP9|title=An Introduction to Middle English|last=Horobin|first=Simon|last2=Smith|first2=Jeremy J.|date=2002|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-521950-0|language=en}}</ref> It came from [[Old English]] after [[William the Conqueror]] came to [[England]] with his French nobles and stopped English from being taught in schools for a few hundred years. Over this time, English borrowed several [[Old French]] words and became part of th