HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

the Norman Conquest

Jan 1, 923

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. The Normans were a French-speaking people from Normandy in the north of France. They became the new rulers of Britain.

The influence the british in american natif

Jan 1, 1607

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 name of the first small colony was Jamestown. In time, people in these new colonies began to call areas of their new land by words borrowed from the native people they found living there.

The anglo-saxon imvasion

Jan 23, 5523

There were a lot of invsions in Britain. The Angles were a German tribe who crossed the English Channel.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. Through the years, the Saxons, Angles and Jutes mixed their different languages.