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10-29-2005, 11:20 AM
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english history
hollo
could any1 please tell me about the history of english language? I mean this english which we speaking in this time same that which they was speaking in the past (may be 1000years before)? and how it changed? i wish my question clear ? 
Last edited by zajel; 10-29-2005 at 11:22 AM. 
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10-30-2005, 10:10 AM
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10-30-2005, 04:09 PM
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Hello Zajel:
As you can see from the link Plin has given you, the answer to your question is not simple. Another website that contains a lot of information is: <http://www.krysstal.com/english.html> I have pulled out a few exerpts for you. (Quote) The history of the language can be traced back to the arrival of three Germanic tribes to the British Isles during the 5th Century AD. Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossed the North Sea from what is the present day Denmark and northern Germany. The Angles were named from Engle, their land of origin. Their language was called Englisc from which the word, English derives. An Anglo-Saxon inscription dated between 450 and 480AD is the oldest sample of the English language. By the 10th Century, the West Saxon dialect became the official language of Britain. In 1066 the Normans conquered Britain. French became the language of the Norman aristocracy and added more vocabulary to English. It wasn't till the 14th Century that English became dominant in Britain again. By the end of the 14th Century, the dialect of London had emerged as the standard dialect of what we now call Middle English. Modern English began around the 16th Century and, like all languages, is still changing. (Unquote).
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