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A Brief History of the English Language
English is a member of the Indo-European family of languages. This broad family includes most of the European languages spoken today. The Indo-European family includes several major branches: Latin and the modern Romance languages (French etc.); the Germanic languages (English, German, Swedish etc.); the Indo-Iranian languages (Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit etc.); the Slavic languages (Russian, Polish, Czech etc.); the Baltic languages of Latvian and Lithuanian; the Celtic languages (Welsh, Irish Gaelic etc.); Greek. The influence of the original Indo-European language can be seen today, even though no written record of it exists. The word for father, for example, is vater in German, pater in Latin, and pitr in Sanskrit. These words are all cognates, similar words in different languages that share the same root......... |
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Brief History of English -Jeremy Smith
Where did English come from? The Germanic language of the Angulseaxans (Anglo-Saxons), who began arriving in the British Isles in the middle of the 5th century AD, developed independently of the original continental Ealdseaxe (Old Saxons), becoming what is called both Anglo-Saxon and Old English. English developed from there, more or less as follows: 450-1100 Anglo-Saxon/Old English 1100-1500 Middle English (Chaucer) 1500-1700 Early Modern (Shakespeare) 1700-1900 19th century (Industrial Revolution & Victorians) 1900-2000 Modern (Technology) But who were these Saxons? Where did they and their language come from, and whom did they find when they arrived in the British Isles? ..... |
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What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef?
----------------------------------------Answer: feedback. Don’t forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.  |
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE HISTORY
English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to Britain in the 5th Century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany. The original Old English language was subsequently influenced by two successive waves of invasion. The first was by speakers of languages in the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family, who colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries. Keep reading to learn more................ |
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Global English: A Paradigm Shift (Google Knol)
A new age in cross-cultural communications using Global English as the tool........ |
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