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3 days ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
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4 days ago · The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries.Scholars wishing to study the origins of language must draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition, and comparisons between human language and systems of animal ...
2 days ago · First millennium BC. First millennium AD. 1000–1500 AD. After 1500. By family. Constructed languages. See also. References. List of languages by first written account. This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language.
5 days ago · Old English, also known as Anglo-Saxon, was a West Germanic language spoken in England from the 5th to the 11th centuries. The literary standard of Old English was based on the West Saxon dialect, which was further away from the main area of Scandinavian influence.
3 days ago · Introduction. Many of the English words we use today like beer, hand, mother and love have all survived from Old English. Neil and Georgina discuss where the English language we use today really...
4 days ago · Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language —spanning 34 centuries. There is an Ancient phase, subdivided into a Mycenaean period (texts in syllabic script attested from the 14th to the 13th century bce) and Archaic and Classical ...
3 days ago · History & Evolution. Northumbrian. An Evolving Language. Modern English is a mongrel language, made up of many linguistic strands. Celtic, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and Norman-French are the principal roots, onto which have been grafted words and phrases from every part of the world during the last five hundred years.
