History of the english language

By mikkelte
  • 500

    anglosaxion invasion

    words like Londan thames ir loch(lake) came to the british isles
  • Jan 26, 700

    roman words and letters

    Here they started writing with a very similiar alphabet as today, the roman alphabet
  • Jan 26, 730

    around 500000 people speaking a very different language from one another

  • Jan 26, 786

    anglosaxion raiders and settlers

  • Jan 26, 1066

    The king and royals spoke french

  • Jan 26, 1470

    The king and royals and the citizens now spoke a language close to that today

  • Jan 26, 1476

    Printing press

    you could print books and such instead of having a monk or a scribe make a new one.

  • Many new words and phrases came from shakespear and king James

  • the first dictionary

  • USA wanted its own language and invented american english

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