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Hace 2 días · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. It has become the world’s lingua franca.
- Varieties of English
English language - Dialects, Grammar, Vocabulary: The...
- Vocabulary
English language - Vocabulary, Grammar, Dialects: The...
- Historical Background
Historical background. Among highlights in the history of...
- Middle English
English language - Middle Ages, Dialects, Grammar: One...
- Restoration Period
Restoration period. With the restoration of the monarchy in...
- African American English
African American English (AAE), a language variety that has...
- Frisian
Frisian language, the West Germanic language most closely...
- H.L. Mencken on American English
The reputation of the journalist and critic H.L. Mencken has...
- Varieties of English
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 3 días · Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages . Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic, East Germanic and North Germanic. [1]
Hace 5 días · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
Hace 1 día · West Frisian (Westerlauwers Fries), along with Saterland Frisian and North Frisian, evolved from the same branch of the West Germanic languages as Old English (i.e. Anglo-Frisian) and are therefore genetically more closely related to English and Scots than to Dutch.
Hace 6 días · e. African-American Vernacular English [a] ( AAVE) [b] is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working - and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. [4] Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more ...
Hace 2 días · These Anglo-Frisian dialects did not take part in the High German consonant shift, and the Anglic languages also adopted much vocabulary from both Old Norse and the Norman language. The history of the German language begins with the High German consonant shift during the Migration Period, which separated Old High German dialects from Old Saxon.
