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The original speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European that spread throughout the European continent, dividing into three groups. -
The Tocarian people who settled in 3700 BC -
The Kurgans II III and IV that settled in 3500 BC
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The Baltic peoples settled in 2800 BC -
Indo-Aryan languages date back to 2300 BC in western central Asia
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Proto-German is believed to have started in the years 2000 BC with the accentuation of the first towns in the Baltic Sea. -
First traces of Old English from The Vikings in 1510 BC.
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Greek language in the 1400s BC which is one of the oldest, with its own alphabet and its great cultural contribution.
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We have the settlement of the Persian empire that had great influence on the expansion of the Indo-Iranian language in 520 BC. -
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In the summer of 55 b.C Julius Caesar having completed the conquest of Gaun decided upon an invasion to England.
The 1st attempt was a failure.
The next summer he succeeded in establishing himself the southwest. -
In the first millennium BC, the origin of the Celtic, Germanic, Italian and Armenian languages is believed to be the mothers of today's languages, after all evolution due to the influence of cultures.
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Latin words may have reached English through several routes. They must have entered the Celtic language of the British during and some may have remained in daily use after the Romans finally left in the early 5th century to be picked up by the Anglo-Saxons.
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Vortiguen, one of the Celtic leaders, made an agreement with the Jutes since when the Romans withdrew in 410, they had no more protection.
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About the 449 the began the invasión of britain by germanic tribes the founders of the english nation -
Saxon Great Britain from c. 450 AD to c. 1150
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The Saxons arrived in 477, landed on the South Wessex coast. -
In 495 additional bands of Saxons settled in West Wessex. -
The Angles occupied the East Coast, In 547 stablished an Anglian Kingdom of the humber essex 5th century east anglia.
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After the arrival of Saint Augustine in 597 the influence of the monks grew and Latinisms became known.
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Surviving material in Old English consists of only 3,037 texts
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7th century Northumbria gained political supremacy. -
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The Vikings first made their presence felt in Britain in the 780s
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Wessex in the 9th century won supremacy under Egbert -
King Alfred made a treaty with the Viking leader Guthrum, which roughly divided England in two. -
Siglo VIII -Mercia -
The work of Ælfric an abbot who wrote homilies and saints’ lives was still being copied or quoted as late as around the year 1200, this gives us the strongest of hints that the language had not moved so far from Old English as to be totally unintelligible. -
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During the 11th and 12th centuries, the type of language that emerged is Middle English. -
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Old Norse Taka is first recorded in an English form toc (‘took’) during the late 11th century, but by the end of the Middle English period take had completely taken over the function of niman in general English.
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Around 1300 they found someone who added the following note to the margin of an old English text: "non appreciatum propter ydioma incognita" -not appreciated because unknown language-. By this time the Old English period was definitely over.
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Sir William Jones.
1746 - 1794
Sanskrit was related to latin, greek and german. -
Jacob Grimm.
1785 - 1863
German philologist.
The discover of Grimm's law.
Elder of the brothers Grimm. -
Rasmus Rask.
1787- 1832
Danish language scholar founder
of science of comparative linguistics. -
Franz Bopp.
1791 - 1867
German linguist established tha importance
of Sanskrit in the comparative study of
indo european language.
Greek. Sankskrit, Latin and Germanic