History of the English Language
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The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. These tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, crossed the North Sea from what today is Denmark and northern Germany.
At that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language. But most of the Celtic speakers were pushed west and north by the invaders - mainly into what is now Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Angles came from Englaland and their language was called Englisc - from which the words England and English are derived.
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A short history of the
The history of the English
language really started with
At that time the inhabitants
of Britain spoke a Celtic
Old English (450-1100 AD)
Part of Beowulf, a poem written in Old English.
The invading Germanic tribes
Nevertheless, about half of
Middle English (1100-1500)
An example of Middle English by Chaucer.
An example of Middle English
In 1066 William the Conqueror,
For a period there was a
kind of linguistic class
Modern English
- Early Modern English (1500-180
0) - Late Modern English (1800-Present)
Early Modern English
Hamlet's famous "To be, or
not to be" lines, written in
Towards the end of Middle
English, a sudden and
This, and the Renaissance of
Classical learning, meant
Printing also brought
Late Modern English
The main difference between
firstly, the Industrial
secondly, the British Empire
Varieties of English
- From around 1600, the English
colonization of North America resulted in the creation of a distinct American variety of E nglish. Some English pronuncia tions and words "froze" when t hey reached America. In some w ays, American English is more like the English of Shakespear e than modern British English is.
- Some expressions that the Brit
ish call "Americanisms" are in fact original British express ions that were preserved in th e colonies while lost for a ti me in Britain (for example tra sh for rubbish, loan as a verb instead of lend, and fall for autumn; another example, frame-up, was re-imported into Britain through Hollywood gangster movies).
- Spanish also had an influence
on American English (and subse quently British English), with words like canyon, ranch, stampede and vigilante being examples of Spanish words that entered English through the settlement of the American West. French words (through Louisiana) and West African words (through the slave trade) also influenced American English (and so, to an extent, British English).
Today, American English is