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Anglo Saxon
Most of the words in the grammatical groups- pronouns, prepositions, determiners, conjunction, auxiliary verbs. During this period (5th-7th centuries) also the country gradually became Christian as missionaries arrived from Rome; they spoke Latin. A number of Latin words came in at this time. They wrote using the Roman Alphabet which is basically the same as the modern alphabet but they borrowed some Anglo Saxon letters called 'runes' for sounds that did not exist in Latin such as thorn 'p' th