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Hace 3 días · Saxony, [a] officially the Free State of Saxony, [b] is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area ...
Hace 2 días · Explaining linguistic change, and particularly the rise of Old English, is crucial in any account of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.According to Higham, the adoption of the language—as well as the material culture and traditions—of an Anglo-Saxon elite, "by large numbers of the local people seeking to improve their status within the social structure, and undertaking for this purpose ...
Hace 4 días · English language is a West Germanic language that originated in England and spread to many parts of the world. It is the dominant language of several countries and the most widely used lingua franca. Learn about its history, development, characteristics, and varieties from Britannica, the online encyclopedia that covers a wide range of topics and personalities.
- The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca...
- As of 2020 there are 1.27 billion English speakers around the world. This makes it the most spoken language, ahead of Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billio...
- There has been much public and academic debate on whether African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect of English or its own separate la...
- Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English...
- English is not the official language of the United States of America. The country does not have an official language on the federal level. Many sta...
Hace 5 días · His legal reforms, which included the codification of West Saxon law and the promotion of literacy, strengthened the kingdom‘s institutions and cultural identity (Pratt, 2007). Alfred‘s grandson, Æthelstan (r. 924-939), would become the first king to rule over a unified English nation in the 10th century.
Hace 2 días · Dutch ( endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language [4] and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (or 60% of the population ...
Hace 4 días · Hengist and Horsa came from this country of the Angles into Britain, which from thence was called Anglia. (fn. 4) At the time the Saxons came out of the Chersonesus, in quest of new settlements, they were joined by the Angles, who, in process of time, became one nation with them. Hence they are, by most authors, comprised under the general name ...
Hace 2 días · Wilton situated at a strategic point on the river systems of southern Wiltshire (fn. 1) was an obvious choice as a place of settlement by the migrants from the south, who about the middle of the 6th century founded the kingdom of Wessex. How early Wilton became the royal seat of the kingdom is unknown, but evidence of the 9th century shows it ...
