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Period: 400 to
Before the Old English Era
English is not a language yet. The Roman Empire has not expanded into what is modern day England -
500
Old English Starts to Develop
The Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians invade what is modern Britain. -
600
The Start of Old English or The Anglo-Saxon Language
The Angles and Saxons mingle and come together. Over time The language turns into Anglo-Saxon or Old English. -
1000
The End of Old English
Old English started to form in words instead of runes. Old English is still used at this time but is used less and less. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
The Start of Middle English
Middle English started to develop after the Norman invasion. The Anglo-Saxon language started to turn away from runes and more into the words we can recognize today. -
1200
Beginning of Middle English
The beginning of Middle English had no actual language. It was all just dialects from Old English. -
Period: 1500 to
The Great Vowel Shift Into Modern English
The Great Vowel shift started to radically change in the 15th to the 17th century. -
Modern or New English
Modern or New English is the English that is spoken today. Most of the words may not seem like it but its true. Early Modern English was used during the Tutor reign. The words of William Shakespeare and the King James bible is known to be Modern English despite having verbiage that is hard to understand. -
New Modern English
New Modern English has progressed so much from the 17th century to the current century. The terms and slang that are used have developed English even further.
