HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

By Oihane.estavillo
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    THE ANGLO-SAXON INVASIONS

    THE ANGLO-SAXON INVASIONS
    There were a lot of invasions in Britain.The Angles were a German tribe .They were the Saxons and the Jutes. These groups found a people called the Celts, who had lived in Britain for many thousands of years.Through the years, the Saxons, Angles and Jutes mixed their different languages. The result is what is called Anglo-Saxon or Old English.Old English is extremely difficult to understand.Several written works have survived from the Old English period.He most famous is called “Beowulf”.
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    THE INVASION OF THE VIKINGS

    THE INVASION OF THE VIKINGS
    The next great invasion of Britain came from the far North beginning about 1,100 years ago.They were looking to capture trade goods and slaves and take away anything of value. In some areas, the Vikings became so powerful they built temporary bases. These temporary bases sometimes became Permanent. Words like “sky,” “leg,” “skull,” “egg,” “crawl,” “lift” and “take” are from the old languages of the far northern countries.
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    THE NORMAN CONQUEST

    THE NORMAN CONQUEST
    The next invasion of Britain took place more than 900 years ago, in 1066. History experts call this invasion the Norman Conquest. William the Conqueror led it. Old English took many words from the Norman French. Some of these include “damage,” “prison,” and “marriage.” Most English words that describe law and government come from Norman French, words such as “jury,” “parliament,” and “justice.”
    “The Canterbury Tales,” written more than 600 years ago. “The Canterbury Tales”

  • THE INFLUENCE OF THE BRITISH AMERICAN NATIVES

    THE INFLUENCE OF THE BRITISH AMERICAN NATIVES
    The development of the English language took a giant step just nine years before the death of William Shakespeare. Three small British ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1607.The Mississippi, the Tennessee, the Missouri are examples. This borrowing or adding of foreign words to English was a way of expanding the language. Britain had other colonies in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and India. The English language also became part of these colonies.

  • 5.THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRINTING PRESS AND W.SHAKESPEARE

    5.THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRINTING PRESS AND W.SHAKESPEARE
    English began to grow more quickly when William Caxton returned to Britain in the year 476 He had been in Holand and other areas of Europe where he had learned printing.It was during this time period that the raider writer in English produced his work.His plays continue to be printed, acted in theaters, and seen in motion pictures almost four hundred years after his death.