Topic > History of the English language - 874

The English language has changed a lot. It is a very ancient language. The Old English language originally comes from northwestern Germany. The history of the English language has been divided into three different periods. It was divided into Old English, Middle English and Modern English. It has been influenced by many other different languages, and this is what has caused English to change and have new words. The language continued to change, even after the Renaissance. English changed the most before the Renaissance. There was the Great Vocal Shift that caused the pronunciation to change. Many people in England left the country and moved to North America, which is now the United States and Canada. They moved and colonized Africa, India, New Zealand and Australia. The language has continued to change to this day and is still happening. The Jutes, Anglos and Saxons came from northwestern Germany and invaded Britain and drove out the original citizens of England in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland and somewhere in northern France. who become the Breton Celtics. When the Jutes, Angles and Saxons mixed their old German language, it became Old English. It was the beginning of English history. The Anglos called their land Angle land, which is very similar to the country England. They called their language Englisc, which almost sounds like the English language. With the arrival of the Romans, new words were added from Latin. 28.24% of the English language comes from Latin. When the Norman conquest occurred in 1066, the Anglo-Saxons had to learn French terms. It was invaded by the French, Normans and Bretons. Fortunately they managed to keep their old English, and this made English even richer and stronger after the French left...... middle of paper ......garoo, chipmunk and skunk are words native. Now that many British explorers and other people from England are settling in new areas far from their home countries, accents are slowly becoming different, like Westerns in North America versus England. For many it is still difficult to distinguish the Australian accent from the British one, and both countries are very far from each other. The history of the English language is something that really happened since there are languages ​​that have similar vocabularies, such as French with verbal support, cliché, million and garage. There have been many changes, such as invasions and wars. Now that English has changed and influenced by other different languages, it is a complete mix. It has been enriched by science and technology; it is a complex and enormous spoken language.