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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.
English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of ...
The History of English. 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 widely spoken language in the world today. This website is a complete resource on the English language which can be used for reference but can also be read as a story in ...
Honorary Research Associate in English, University of Cape Town. Terttu Nevalainen, Professor of English Philology, University of Helsinki. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Senior Lecturer in Historical Linguistics, University of Leiden. Wim van der Wurff, Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. ix
The earliest documented variety of the language, Old English (c. 450 to 1100 ce ), was a synthetic language, typologically similar to modern German, with its three genders, relatively free word order, rich case system, and verbal morphology.
Nineteenth-century English – an overview. As in previous eras, language serves as an admirable witness to both history and change. Nineteenth-century conflicts such as the Crimean War (1854-6) are memorialized in words such as cardigan (named after James Brudenell, seventh earl of Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade) and balaclava (which derives from the name of a Crimean ...
