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Hace 1 día · 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
1. The Bow-Wow Theory. According to this theory, language began when our ancestors started imitating the natural sounds around them. The first speech was onomatopoeic —marked by echoic words such as moo, meow, splash, cuckoo, and bang . So what's wrong with this theory?
Hace 1 día · The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries.Scholars wishing to study the origins of language must draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition, and comparisons between human language and systems of animal ...
Hace 4 días · The English word language derives ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s "tongue, speech, language" through Latin lingua, "language; tongue", and Old French language.
Hace 3 días · Gothic (the most archaic well-documented Germanic language, AD c. 350), along with the combined witness of the other old Germanic languages: most importantly, Old English (c. 800 –1000), Old High German (c. 750 –1000) and Old Norse (c. 1100 –1300 AD, with limited earlier sources dating to AD c. 200).
Hace 3 días · The Latin language is an Indo-European language in the Italic group and is ancestral to the modern Romance languages. During the Middle Ages and until comparatively recent times, Latin was the language most widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes.
Hace 5 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.
