Modern English: The History Of The English Language

Old English dates back to approximately the year 700. If you go back even farther, Dutch, German and old English can all be traced back to the same source. French had a large impact on the English language during the medieval centuries primarily because England was ruled by the upper class that spoke French. English today has spread across the globe. People around the world will adapt English into their own cultural practices.

1) There are many Indo-European language groups and English falls into the Germanic language. There are also many other languages for example; Swedish, Dutch, Icelandic, Danish, ect. There are many languages that change over time, English happens to be one of the languages that changed dramatically and even to this day there are still changes that are being made. English has changed so dramatically because of the cultural environment and how it migrates to many different places. Another reason why English has changes so much over the time is also because of the colonization and invasions.

Late Modern English, a global language spoken around the world by over 2 billion people can trace its roots to the Germanic language introduced by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the 5th century. Before the arrival of the Anglo Saxons, many parts of Britain were bilingual Celtic-Latin speakers, although very few traces of Celtic remain in the English language – other than in place names, for example Avon and Ouse – which derive from the Celtic word for ‘water’, and words found more in local dialects than mainstream English – for example ‘broc’ for badger.

English is the main language of the Western world. Many English words originated from the Roman language of Latin. Simple English words such as ?architecture?, ?balm?, ?determine? and ?say? have been derived from Latin. Just flip through a dictionary and an endless amount of words have come from Latin. If the Ancient Romans didn?t have and create the language of Latin, we would probably lose half our vocabulary, because of the great role it has played in making the language of English. The

My love affair with Grammar was once an unstable, inconsistent one. It began in 12th grade, my senior year of high school. Mind you, it’s not that I met Grammar in high school; I knew him, well, for most of my life. I began reading at the age of three, and it can be rightly stated that Grammar and I began our relationship at that time. You see, I was a precocious early reader, who cracked the reading code, without formal instruction. I realized that there was a rhythm, cadence, and pattern to language, and as soon as I began writing manuscript letters, I began to practice placing words in their proper order.

The English language is no different than it was a century ago; however, it has been culturally changing over the past few decades. It is common knowledge to humans that each ethnicity has their own formal language they speak and that they perceive various styles of language in different manners. Language style is the choice of words used by a specific group of people when they speak. Although we have the ability to speak to everyone in the same proper way, naturally we, including myself, tend to change our speech depending on where we are, who we are associated with, and the situation we are encountered in.

“The History of the English Language”. http://www.uni-due.de/SHE/. Univ. of Duisburg Essen. April 2013. Web 4 Oct. 2013.

The English language developed over two thousand years and was first by spoken by Danish Vikings who invaded England to blend over

As a language,English is widely used in the world. Its history is only about 6 hundreds years, which means it is a young language. With the development of America and British, the differences between American English and British English becomes more and more obvious. In this essay, I will analyze these differences in grammar, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.

Think of things that morph over time. What comes to mind? People may think about a music artist’s change from YouTube videos recorded on iPhones to sold-out concerts. Or, they may think about the changes an athlete makes from childhood to becoming a professional athlete. However, did you think about how much a language changes over a couple of years? Every year words are added to and taken from the dictionary. Words are formed and forgotten. Language changes because of a person’s vocabulary and location, but what happens to a language, like the English language, that is spread across the whole world?

In this research paper I will be talking for Old English, Middle English and Modern English Period, I am going to summarize their main characteristics such as: history, vocabulary, grammar and writing system. English literature begins before the fourteenth century. The unity of language consists on the one hand in the insistence of a language which remains from first to last fairly intelligible and on the other hand in the continuity of written records handed down generation to generation. These two conditions were not fulfilled in England until the days of Chaucer. The first contributor is Anglo-Saxon literature and the second is the literature imported from France

English went on a long and vigorous adventure to have become the vast language that we know, speak and read today. In this essay, the differences and similarities between Old English and Modern English will be discussed by referring to an extract of Matthew 2: 4-10 from The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West Saxon: edited from the manuscripts by James Wilson Bright (1910:5-6). In the discussion there will be referred to the differences and similarities in orthography, spelling, vocabulary and syntax. Conclusions will also be made about the nature of these chances as they occurred in the adventure from Old English to Modern English.

Since there do exist different English varieties it is clear that the most important are the American English and the British English, which are quietly different yet so connected with each other. Generally, it is agreed that no one version is "correct" however, there are certainly preferences in use. However, there are a lot of grammatical differences between these two, which sometimes cannot be identified by English speaking peoples unless they are very meticulous or linguistics to understand them, but also the native speaker of both these varieties can easily detect these grammar differences. They are present in pronunciation differences in both consonants and vowels, in intonation and word stressing; also differences are in vocabulary, in verbs, nouns, phrasal verbs and also using names of items or tools. The main difference can be seen in spelling where a general difference is in the usage of prefix and suffix. Also differences are seen in the use of auxiliary verbs, past tense verbs, tag questions etc… So the British and American English have more similarities than

The History of the English language video one, has left me confused, intrigued, and more passionate about where languages come from. The study of languages has always been a passion of mine, how other people across the global community and how there are similar words in each language has always had me thinking. The English language is a newer language compared to most however, in today's world it is one of the hardest and most known languages in the world.

English was one of many languages spoken in Britain for four hundred years before it began to be called English. It was a language with no special status and without a special strong identity. In fact, the history of English started with the arrival of Anglo-Saxons in Britain in the 400s when Celtic languages were spoken by the inhabitants of the island. English shows some traces of Celtic, rising from the merge of dialects brought by the Germanic invaders. And after the Norman conquest of 1066, English spelling and vocabulary was affected by French and Latin, especially when French becomes the official language of England. But in the period of renaissance, Shakespeare and the Elizabeth era, the role of the church, of French and Latin turn down and English becomes the language of government and science. And when the first official government documents were written in English, a common sense of a