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Hace 3 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.
- 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
English language - Restoration, Grammar, Vocabulary: With...
- 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 · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
Hace 3 días · How many English words are derived from Latin? It is estimated that around 80% of the English language can be traced back to Latin. This includes borrowed words, words with Latin roots, as well as words that have evolved over time but retained their Latin influence. What are some Latin phrases used in legal and scientific contexts in English?
Hace 4 días · Theories of the origin of the alphabet The evolution of the alphabet involved two important achievements. The first was the step taken by a group of Semitic-speaking people, perhaps the Phoenicians, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean between 1700 and 1500 bce .
- An alphabet is a set of graphs or characters used to represent the phonemic structure of a language. In most alphabets, the characters are arranged...
- The word alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta. It was first used, in its Latin form, alphabetum, by Tert...
- The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters. All are consonants, though four of them (alef, he, waw, and yod) are also employed to represent long vo...
- The Arabic alphabet probably originated some time in the 4th century CE, but the earliest known extant Arabic writing is a trilingual inscription—G...
- The Latin-Turkish alphabet was introduced in 1928 and became general throughout Turkey in 1930. It contains 29 letters, of which two vowels (ö and...
Hace 4 días · Introduction. New bits of English are invented as people use the language in new ways, but what happens when a language comes from an entirely different galaxy – somewhere like Qo’noS, home...
Hace 2 días · The search for the origin of language has a long history in mythology. Most mythologies do not credit humans with the invention of language but speak of a divine language predating human language.
Hace 5 días · The book also explores the wider global course of the language, including a historical review of English in its pidgin and creole varieties and as a native and/or second language in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.The third edition, carefully revised and updated throughout, includes: chapter introductions and conclusions to assist in orientation plus additional marginal references ...
