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Period: 410 to 597
Anglo-Saxon
-Romans leave Britain, but not their Latin Language.
-Anglo-Saxon bring their Languague (words for everyday things).
-Christian missionaries add new vocabulary (jumble sales and more latin). -
800
Vikings
Came the Vikings with their action words. -
1066
Norman Conquest
It brought new concepts like French. It was an official language(Clerk and Parlament). Latin still used at church. Common man spoke English to French People. English absorve 10,000 words from Normans. -
Period: 1337 to 1453
War of 100 years
French and English Took over as language of power. The war really last 116 year. -
Period: 1550 to
English and Empire
Britain went to Caribbean adding new words from America, India, Africa, Australia,... The British empire globbed up million squere miles,leaving varieties of English to develop all over the globe. -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare
Shown that english was vibrant whith limitless expresive and emotional power. He invented 2000 words and phrases with his poetry. -
Period: to
American English
From the moment British first landed in America, he English language borrow words from the native Americans. And the Dutch, the Germans and the Italians came shering new words. -
The king James Bible
Came a light reading. Begat a glossary of metaphor and morality that everybody could understand. -
Period: to
English of Science
Britain was full of physicists first they spoke latin then realised thry spoke English. They add new words related with the human body. -
Period: to
The adge of the dictionary
Along came a new breed of men called lexicographes, in order to define the words.They created a dictionary. The Dictionary of the English language by D.r Jhonson and the Oxford English Dictionary in 1857. -
Period: to
Internet English
The internet, since 1972 has been changing the way to type and speack. Before the internet , English changed through people speaking, but the net brought typing an new words. -
Adding words
America spread a new language of capitalism. American English drifted back as British got the hang of their words. -
Global English
The languague grew into a fully fledged language all of its own.Pilfering words from over 350 languages and establishing itsel as a global institution. 1. billion people speak English, but about a quarter are native speakers. -
Modern English
Now there are many English languages combination around the word. The language has got so little to do with England these days.