Muhammad Altaf

1. Presented by : M.Altaf
Department of English
ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH
LANGUAGE

2. Adventure of English
Language

3. BIRTH OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• The modern Frisian language is the closest sounding
language to the English used approximately 2000 years
ago, when the people from what is now the north of the
Netherlands travelled to what would be the United Kingdom
and pushed the Celts to the western side of the island.
Words like "blue" can be recognized in the Frisian
language.

4. ENGLISH GOES UNDERGROUND
• During the time of Viking English individually went
underground. Latin language used in worship and
philosophy instead of English.
• And class also affected the use of English, especially in the
time of William the Defeater and for approximately 300
years after his reign; during this period, only the French
language and Latin were used in state affairs and by the
nobility, while English remained in use with the lower
farmer classes. But in Elizabethan age English completely
dominated.

5. THE BATTLE FOR THE LANGUAGE OF
THE BIBLE
• In the early to mid 1300s, English fought to be the
language of the Christian Bible through the efforts
of theologian John Wycliffe, who opposed the
church's use of a Latin scripture because it banned
most of the population from reading the bible for
themselves.

6. THIS EARTH, THIS REALM, THIS
ENGLAND
• In Queen Elizabeth I's time, English began to
expand to even greater depths. Foreign trade
brought new words from France, as well as the now
popular swearwords "krappe," (crap) and "bugger"
from Dutch, in the 16th century.

7. CONTI.
• Now English was becoming Middle English, one of whose
regional types was the language of Chaucer. As Bragg says,
Chaucer is as remarkable for the variety of his language as
for his characters and stories. In Chaucer's lifetime, John
Wycliffe, an Oxford scholar, was organizing the translation
of the Bible into English in hundreds of manuscript copies
and its distribution by Lollard preachers.

8. ENGLISH IN AMERICA
• Upon landing in North America, settlers encountered
Squanto, a native man who had been captured and brought
to England to learn English and become a guide. Squanto
made the colonies in America and taught the English to the
them, in the world the settlers had new world and new
country full of new places and geographical features new
animals and plants. They needed words to describe them
and occasionally they turned to the native language. After
escaping, Squanto returned to his tribe, which happened to
live near the place that the English settlers had created
their small village.

9. CONTI.
• Almost all those 100 most common words in
English are from Old English. Three ("they", "their"
and "them") come from Old Norse. The first French-
derived word is the 76th most common: "number".
Bragg suggests that commercial contact with the
Danes encouraged Old English to lose its inflected
word endings and express its meanings through
word order - though this is really guesswork.

10. SPEAKING PROPER
• The Age of Reason began, and English scholars of
mathematics and science like Newton started
publishing their books in English instead of Latin.
Jonathan Swift would attempt to save the English
language from continuous change, followed by
Samuel Johnson who would write the A Dictionary
of the English Language, made up of 43000 words
and definitions, written in seven years and
published in 1755.

11. THE LANGUAGE OF EMPIRE
• British trade and colonization spread the English
language. In India, scholar William Jones finds
some English words already present in Sanskrit.
Villains land in Australia, combination London
criminal slang and Original words into a new
dialect. Jamaicans regain jargon.

12. ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAVELLED TO
INDIA
• English language travelled to India, where it
encountered a lot of other ancient language such
as Sanskrit who spoken as a mother tongue. British
trade and colonization spread the English
language. In India, scholar William Jones finds
some English words already present in Sanskrit.
Prisoners land in Australia, blending London
criminal slang and Native words into a new dialect.

13. CONTI.
• At the end of Britain’s imperial rule in the
mid20th century English remain in India as a
major tongue. And now English became a
mother tongue and became a power of
European. English became a mother tongue
for the greatest countries on the earth and
one of them is America.

14. MANY TONGUES CALLED ENGLISH, ONE
WORLD LANGUAGE
• The globalization of the English language in the
20th century be thankful most to the United States.
Here we look at the majority of American Black
street talk, how the Second World War and
American movies threatened to "infect" the mother
tongue in Britain and how some nations are
attempting to stamp in the attack of English out -
for example franglais in France and Singlish in
Singapore. And now English tongue being spoken
by all ranks in the world.

15. Thank you