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Origins of the English Language

Origins of the English Language. Written records of English have been preserved for about 1,300 years. Much earlier, however, a people living in the east, near the Caspian Sea, spoke a language that was to become English. Proto-Indo-European.

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Origins of the English Language

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  1. Origins of the English Language

  2. Written records of English have been preserved for about 1,300 years. Much earlier, however, a people living in the east, near the Caspian Sea, spoke a language that was to become English.

  3. Proto-Indo-European • The earliest family of languages made up of most of the languages of Europe, Iran, India, and other parts of Asia. • Proto= “the first or earliest form of something”

  4. Indo-European Languages Proto-Indo-European people traveled and settled in parts of Turkey, Iran, India, and most of Europe. Their languages changed into what we now call Per-sian, Hindi, Armenian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Irish, Italian, French, Spanish, German, English, Dutch, Nor-wegian, Swedish, and most of the languages of Europe and India.

  5. Timeline of Language in England People GroupLanguage 307 B.C.-1 A.D.- Celtic Celts/Britons C. 50 A.D. Romans Latin 449 A.D.- Angles & Saxons Danish Scandina- vian

  6. Timeline of Language in England People GroupLanguage 597 A.D. Roman Missionaries Latin Latin words borrowed from Roman soldiers: mile, street, wall, wine, cheese, butter, dish After conversion to Christianity, these words were added to vocabulary: school, candle, alter, paper, circle

  7. Timeline of Language in England People GroupLanguage 793 A.D.- Vikings Norse/ Scandin- avian Words borrowed from Vikings: get, give, hit, kick, law, sister, skirt, sky, take, window, they, their, them

  8. Timeline of Language in England People GroupLanguage 849-899 A.D. Saxon Alfred the Great (Old English) Words from Old English/Anglo-Saxon: Heart (heorte), foot (fot), head (heafod), day (dæg), year (gear), father (fæder), mother (moder), son (sunu), daughter (dohtor), name (nama), east (east)

  9. Anglo- Saxon Roots

  10. Timeline of Language in England People GroupLanguage 1066 A.D. French William the Conqueror (Normans) Words from borrowed from French: abjure, abstain, account, beverage, blank, blanket, bonnet, calendar, cancel, canon, found

  11. Beowulf Manuscript

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