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The Story of English. This text examines the origins and development of the English language. 2000 years ago, English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe. Today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world, of whom 350 million use it as their mother tongue.
6 de sept. de 2012 · The Story of English illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia.
The history of the English language is a complex tapestry of gradual developments and short, sharp shocks, of isolation and mutual influences, of borrowings and obsolescences. View All Articles. How English developed from a West German language that was brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants to the most ...
1 de abr. de 2011 · Books. The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language. Melvyn Bragg. Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., Apr 1, 2011 - Reference - 336 pages. A "New York Times" Best Seller! Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more ...
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World. The Story of English. : Philip Gooden. Booksales, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 223 pages. Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally ...
8 de nov. de 2011 · Take a look at the history of the English language (this is a combination of all 10 parts of the series into one video)(All parts - combined)Playlist link - ...
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The Story of English in India. Lalitha Krishnaswamy, N. Krishnaswamy. Cambridge University Press, 2006 - English language - 226 pages. With globalization, English has become an economic necessity and Indians have realized that they have the ‘English advantage’ over many other countries like China and Japan. India has shed its colonial ...
