The History of English

1. ENG
LISH
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2. Origins to Modern Language

3. WHAT
IS
ENGLIS
H?
WHERE DID THE
LANGUAGE
EVOLVE FROM?

4. HOW HAS ENGLISH
EVOLVED INTO THE
LANGUAGE WE SPEAK
TODAY?

5. ORIGINS
I. English is a West Germanic language that
was first spoken in early medieval England
and is now a global bridge language.
II. It is the third most common native language
in the world.
III. English has developed over the course more
than 1,400 years.

6. PRE-
ENGLISH
 The various dialects spoken by the Germanic tribes are known as Pre-Old
English.
 The term England developed later from the tribal name Angles, possibly
because this kingdom was dominant. The term Anglo-Saxon referred to the
West Germanic tribes generally.
 Old English was not entirely uniform and four main dialects were
predominant:
 Northumbrian
 Mercian
 West Saxon
 Kentish

7. Old English
500
Middle
English
1066
Early English
1500
Current
English
1700
The English
language

8.  Transformation of English Language occurred in 3 stages:
 I. Old English: 449-1066
 II. Middle English: 1100-1500
 III. Modern English: 1500 on

9. OLD
ENGLISH
(500-1066
AD)
 About half of the most used words in modern English have Old
English roots.
 The earliest form of English is called Old English or Anglo-Saxon,
developed from a set of North Sea Germanic dialects.
 These tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, crossed
 the North Sea from what today is Denmark and northern Germany.
 Old English is very different from Modern English and difficult for
21st-century English speakers to understand.

10. HISTORIC
LANGUAGE
RELATIONS

11. MIDDLE ENGLISH:
(1100-1500)
 By the end of the 14th Century, the dialect
of London had emerged as the standard
dialect of what we now call Middle English.
 Began around 1066.
 In the Middle English period the use of
regional dialects in writing proliferated,
and dialect traits were even used for effect
by authors.

12. Towards the end of Middle
English, a sudden and distinct
change in pronunciation (the
Great Vowel Shift) started, with
vowels being pronounced shorter
and shorter.

13.  Middle English continued to be spoken
until the transition to early Modern
English around 1500.

14. MODERN ENGLISH
Modern English was characterized by the Great Vowel Shift.
By the 21st century, English was more widely spoken and
written than any language has ever been.

15.  English has ceased to be an English language in the
sense of belonging only to people who are ethnically
English.
 Use of English is growing country-by-country
internally and for international communication
 Modern English, often described as the first global
lingua franca.
 English is the world's most widely used language.

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