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  1. The Simple English Wikipedia is a Simple English language version of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, written in a language that is easy to understand but is still natural and grammatical. [1] The articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use shorter sentences and easier words and grammar than the regular English Wikipedia. [2]

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    Germanic tribes (Saxons, Angles, and Jutes) came to Britain from around 449 AD. They made their home in the south and east of the island, pushing out the Celtic Britons who were there before them, or making them speak the English language instead of the old Celtic languages. Some people still speak Celtic languages today, in Wales (Welsh) and elsew...

    English grammar started out based on Old English, which is considered to be a Germanic language. After the Norman French conquered England in 1066, parts of the Latin languagewere brought to the English language by the Norman French.

    Written English uses a range of historical spellingpatterns that changed over time due to political and cultural changes. As a result, different words can use the same letters and combinations for very different sounds. For example, "-ough" was once a guttural but has become different in "through" (threw), "rough" (ruff), "dough" (doe) or "cough" (...

    Nearly 60% of the vocabularyin the English language comes from Latin and its descendants, mainly French: 1. Langue d'oïl (French): 29.3% 2. Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin and Frankish (Germanic language): 28.7% 3. Germanic languages: 24% (inherited from Old English/Anglo-Saxon, Proto-Germanic, Old Norse, etc. without includi...

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  3. The Simple English Wikipedia is a modified English-language edition of Wikipedia written primarily in Basic English and Learning English. [2] It is one of seven Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-based pidgin or creole. The site has the stated aim of providing an encyclopedia for "people with different needs, such as students ...

  4. The Simple English Wikipedia is a variation in which most of the articles use only basic English vocabulary ( simplewiki ). There is also the Old English (Ænglisc/Anglo-Saxon) Wikipedia ( angwiki ). It has a newsletter called The Signpost. Wikipedias in other languages have imitated some of its technical and organizational features.

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