ORIGINS
English comes from the Germanic languages, which come from the ...
Proto-Germanic?
The English language is spoken by over 450 million people. That is not compare to the amount of people who speak it as a second language, which is around...
1 to 1.5 billion?
Old English was spoken by...
Anglo-Saxons?
This language had greatest effects on the English language during the Middle English period.
French?
The Modern English is divided into two:
Early and Late?
Almost all the European and some Asian languages come from the ...
Indo-European?
Although the English language comes from the British Isles, nowadays the country which has the half of English native speakers is...
USA?
English has been affected by several languages, and during the Old English there were two languages that had greatest effects. Those languages were...
Latin and Old Norse?
The Normans were called like that because the were from the North of France, and this people came from...
Scandinavian countries?
The Latin and Greek languages had a great impact during the Early Modern English because there was this rediscovery of the classical learning in Europe. This period was called the...
Renaissance?
There are three Germanic branches: North Germanic, East Germanic and West Germanic. The English languages comes from the...
West Germanic?
There are three English periods, ...
Old English, Middle English and Modern English?
The Viking and Anglo-Saxons could understand better because their languages came form the same group. That language group was...
Germanic Group?
During the 14th century there was this poet who is considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages: Geoffrey Chaucer, whose most well-known work is...
The Canterbury Tales?
The Great Vowel Shift?
The Germanic groups changed some consonants. One example is that they changes the P for the F in some words. The name of this law is...
Grimm's Law?
Standard British English?
STRATA is the Latin word for...
Street?
During this period, the English language borrowed words from the Norman French and Central French. And example of those loans if the word WERRE that comes from...
Norman French?
During the Late Modern English, there were less variations in orthography and a few differences in punctuation. This is because of the...
Although the English languages has lots of vocabulary from Latin and French, it comes from the...
Germanic dialects?
It is said that the age of the English language is around...
1500?
The Vikings introduced lots of vocabulary but also some grammar. For example, they introduced the ___ THEY, THEIR, and THEM, which are the pronouns for...
Third person plural?
The French language changed the spelling of some words. For example: the word CWEN became...
QUEEN?
During the Late Modern period, the English language not only took vocabulary from Latin and Greek, but also joined words from them to create new ones. Those words were called...
Neologisms?