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Lucija Katančić
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The story of English language. From Celts to Shakespeare.

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THE CELTS From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. Celts are usually divided into the three groups: •warriors •Druids , the religious leaders; •farmers •No one called them Celts – this is the modern name invented in the 18th century!
CELTIC languages • CELTIC languages were widely spoken across the Europe • Today they are spoken by less than 2 million of people altogether • Irish Gaelic: • DUBLIN – Bhaile Atha Clitah • IRELAND – Eirinn
THE ROMANS • 43 BC - Roman occupation of Britain • Romans established their colony called BRITANNIA • Celtic tribes were Romanized • The Celts from Britannia were known as Britons
THE ANGLES, SAXONS and JUTES • Came to Britain in the 5th century (after the Romans left) • They came across the North Sea in wooden boats from what is now Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. • They were looking for new places to farm
King Arthur tried to fight them off, but they soon settled and stayed in what we now call England (meaning 'Angle Land').
• Their languages slowly turned into the oldest form of English called Old English • Many words in English have an Anglo-Saxon origin: • Everyday objects and things: milk, finger, horse • Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday... • Body parts: head, heart, arms... • Names for family members: son, daughter...
•They used the futhork alphabet. •The letters were called runes. Runes had lots of straight lines, because that made the runes easier to carve them onto wood, stone or metal.
CHRISTIANITY • Anglo-Saxons were pagans • conversion to Christianity began in 597 • a lot of words came into English from Latin • candle, rose, bishop LATIN was the language used by Church WRITING came with Christianity. Futhork was replaced by LATIN script.
• They came from Scandinavia • Their language was called OLD NORSE • A lot of words in English beginnig with sk- came from Old Norse: sky, skin, skirt THE VIKINGS vikingr – “the one who came from fjords” (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians)
Here are some other words Vikings brought to English: • Gun – from gunn (“war, battle”) • Hell – from Hel, the ruler of the Underworld in Norse mythology. • Hit – from hitta (“find”). • Husband – from husbondi (“master of the house”). • Knife – from kniv, kvifr. Any word starting with kn- is probably from old Norse. • Town – from tun, referring to the open space between buildings. • Ugly – from uggligr (“dreadful”).
THE NORMANS • In 1066 the Normans started rulling England • They came from the northern part of France
• FRENCH became the language of the court, the government, the church, the army and the law • All the educated people who wanted to be successful had to speak LATIN or NORMAN FRENCH • government, honour, music, colour, costume, • country, people, parliament, nation, • crown, prince, noble, sir, madam...
• Around the 14th century English again became spoken generally • The English was widely spoken but the grammar and rules of English were not standardized
• in the late 17th and 18th centuries Shakespeare’s plays became very popular • his plays helped the standardization of the language • Shakespeare also “invented” a lot o words and phrases, for example: • Bump, fortune-teller, gloomy, to gossip, successful, addiction SHAKESPEARE
Phrases: • Wild-goose chase • Love is blind • A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! • Good riddance • Crack of doom • All's well that ends well • All that glitters is not gold • To be or not to be...
Modern English -There are many dialects of English spoken throughout the world: American English, Australian English, British English, Canadian English, Caribbean English, Hiberno-English (Irish English), Indo-Pakistani English, Nigerian English, New Zealand English, Philippine English, Singaporean English, South African English - There are over 1 billion speakers of English - There are around million words in English - Three most commonly used words: THE, OF, TO
Sources: • Way to go 5, Školska knjiga, Zagreb 2009. • http://history.parkfieldict.co.uk • http://www.irishdictionary.ie • http://www.omniglot.com • http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk • http://en.wikipedia.org • www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm L.K., 2012

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Short History of English Language

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  • 2. THE CELTS From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. Celts are usually divided into the three groups: •warriors •Druids , the religious leaders; •farmers •No one called them Celts – this is the modern name invented in the 18th century!
  • 3. CELTIC languages • CELTIC languages were widely spoken across the Europe • Today they are spoken by less than 2 million of people altogether • Irish Gaelic: • DUBLIN – Bhaile Atha Clitah • IRELAND – Eirinn
  • 4. THE ROMANS • 43 BC - Roman occupation of Britain • Romans established their colony called BRITANNIA • Celtic tribes were Romanized • The Celts from Britannia were known as Britons
  • 5. THE ANGLES, SAXONS and JUTES • Came to Britain in the 5th century (after the Romans left) • They came across the North Sea in wooden boats from what is now Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. • They were looking for new places to farm
  • 6. King Arthur tried to fight them off, but they soon settled and stayed in what we now call England (meaning 'Angle Land').
  • 7. • Their languages slowly turned into the oldest form of English called Old English • Many words in English have an Anglo-Saxon origin: • Everyday objects and things: milk, finger, horse • Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday... • Body parts: head, heart, arms... • Names for family members: son, daughter...
  • 8. •They used the futhork alphabet. •The letters were called runes. Runes had lots of straight lines, because that made the runes easier to carve them onto wood, stone or metal.
  • 9. CHRISTIANITY • Anglo-Saxons were pagans • conversion to Christianity began in 597 • a lot of words came into English from Latin • candle, rose, bishop LATIN was the language used by Church WRITING came with Christianity. Futhork was replaced by LATIN script.
  • 10. • They came from Scandinavia • Their language was called OLD NORSE • A lot of words in English beginnig with sk- came from Old Norse: sky, skin, skirt THE VIKINGS vikingr – “the one who came from fjords” (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians)
  • 11. Here are some other words Vikings brought to English: • Gun – from gunn (“war, battle”) • Hell – from Hel, the ruler of the Underworld in Norse mythology. • Hit – from hitta (“find”). • Husband – from husbondi (“master of the house”). • Knife – from kniv, kvifr. Any word starting with kn- is probably from old Norse. • Town – from tun, referring to the open space between buildings. • Ugly – from uggligr (“dreadful”).
  • 12. THE NORMANS • In 1066 the Normans started rulling England • They came from the northern part of France
  • 13. • FRENCH became the language of the court, the government, the church, the army and the law • All the educated people who wanted to be successful had to speak LATIN or NORMAN FRENCH • government, honour, music, colour, costume, • country, people, parliament, nation, • crown, prince, noble, sir, madam...
  • 14. • Around the 14th century English again became spoken generally • The English was widely spoken but the grammar and rules of English were not standardized
  • 15. • in the late 17th and 18th centuries Shakespeare’s plays became very popular • his plays helped the standardization of the language • Shakespeare also “invented” a lot o words and phrases, for example: • Bump, fortune-teller, gloomy, to gossip, successful, addiction SHAKESPEARE
  • 16. Phrases: • Wild-goose chase • Love is blind • A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! • Good riddance • Crack of doom • All's well that ends well • All that glitters is not gold • To be or not to be...
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  • 18. Modern English -There are many dialects of English spoken throughout the world: American English, Australian English, British English, Canadian English, Caribbean English, Hiberno-English (Irish English), Indo-Pakistani English, Nigerian English, New Zealand English, Philippine English, Singaporean English, South African English - There are over 1 billion speakers of English - There are around million words in English - Three most commonly used words: THE, OF, TO
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  • 20. Sources: • Way to go 5, Školska knjiga, Zagreb 2009. • http://history.parkfieldict.co.uk • http://www.irishdictionary.ie • http://www.omniglot.com • http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk • http://en.wikipedia.org • www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm L.K., 2012