The two dispersals of english

By jonathan97

  • Walter Raleigh's expedition to America from the British Isles

    Though it didn't lead to any permanent settlement, this is the first example of a english-speaking person travelling to America. They left quiete quickly after conflict with native indians
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    The english language spreads to...

    Southern parts of America and the Caribbean, because of the slave-trade from West-Africa

  • First permanent colonists settled in James-town, Viriginia

  • A group of british puritans arrives in America

    Following the first group of colonists, this group arrived more northly and settled there.
    During the following years, a lot of migrants travelled to and settled. The english-speaking population spread quickly.
    Due to the different origins of their language, the new american dialects became different form each other
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    Immagration from Northern Ireland

    Arrived at the coastal areas around Philadelphia and spread south

  • James Cook 'discovers' Australia

    and landed in modern day Queensland

  • Loyalists left to Canada beacause of the declaration of American Independece

  • The First Fleet

    was the name of the first expedition, of 11 ships to colonize Australia
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    160000 convicts arrived in Australia

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    New Zealand was settled by europeans, mainly english-speaking

    Again the many linguistic origins of the settlers, and the Maori-language, caused a dialect-mix.

  • The british annexed the Cape and arrived in South Africa

  • The british began to settle in South Africa in large numbers

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    Free settlers began to arrive

    causing a mix of dialects from all over England

  • English was declared the official language in South Africa