Intro
What family of languages does the English language belong to ?
Indo-European Languages?
Who were the « Ancient Britons » ?
The first inhabitants of Great Britain during the prehistoric and protohistoric Ages
What language(s) did the three Germanic tribes speak?
Frisian
What are « cognates » ?
Languages that descended from the same ancestral language
What were the two languages spoken in Britain during the Roman occupation ?
Celtin & Latin
What is the origin of the word “English”?
Angli => Englisċ or "Pertaining to the Angles"
Who were the three Germanic tribes that invaded Britain in the 5th century ?
The Angles, the Jutes and the Saxons
Why can we say that the runic alphabet is ideographic?
The runes can be used to represent the concepts after which they are named
How were the Romans and the Germanic tribes different in terms of occupation of the territory ?
The Romans ruled the country as a colony but did not take their land away or chase them away.
The Germanic tribes came in large numbers, settled on the Celtic lands and tried to kicked them out.
What language was mostly used in Britain before the Germanic tribes arrived and what happened to it?
Celtic, it was pushed into more remote places in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland. Only a few Celtic words remain (about 20).