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Celtic
In year 55 BC, celtic was the spoken language.
In year 43 BC, Celtics conquered by the Romans.
From year 55 BC - 500, in the Roman Empire the spoken language was latin of goverment. -
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The British Isles Invadede by Northern Germany, German and Denmark
The British Isles Invadede by Northern Germany, German and Denmark. They made a claer cut, and what we know as English startet her. The old English is very strange to, what we know today. -
Jan 1, 1066
Middel English
The years from 1066-1470, english was a trilingual language. They was invadede by the Northern part of France. The king of England was a norman, and he could only speak French.The priests and bishops spoke Latin and the common people still spoke "The old English" -
Jan 1, 1384
Huge Latin influence
Several thousand word entered from Lation, because of the Catholic Religion -
Jan 1, 1470
Familiar
English was know familar to the mordern eye -
Jan 1, 1476
First printing press
William Caxton set up the first printing press, which meant that the grammar and the spellings had to be understandable. -
Jan 1, 1476
Early Modern English
Time of change and development. The language changed in order to follow the changes and developments in the society. -
Modern English
A large number of words and idiomatic were introduced in the English language. Also the th-ending on words in singular 3-person, was changes to –s. -
The first dictionary was published.
Even though the inkhorn controversy was on its highest everybody agreed that a dictionary was a good thing. It was made by Samuel Johnson. -
American English
America gained independence from Britain. America developed their own language. Not the different, but a part of building their new identity. -
Modern English
The grammar continued chaning but slower. The major changes reflect ny the changes in the society. Therefore hundreds of thousands of words were added to the language. -
First Amrican dictionary
Published by Noah Webster. The different from British English was the omission of the superfluous and silent letters. -
Distinguish between Early Modern and Modern English
Jane Austen's novel illustrated that many words have changed announcement or meaning between these periods. -
Changeing of words
Many words got a different or new meaning -
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The English Language
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Influence from Norse and Latin
At the period from 787-1066, they laguage was influende by Latin, which came from the Christian Missionaries and Norse from the Danisch VIkings who settled in the Northern Britain. -
The Danelaw etablished
From year 800-1000, the Danelaw was etablished. It is the areal in England, were the Vikings settled. Here the influence from Norse was dramatic and longlasting.