The English language can be defined as the language of a group of Germanic tribes who originally inhabited southern Scandinavia and northern Germany. They may have spoken a North Sea Germanic dialect that influenced Old English after the Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain and came into contact with the Romance languages like Latin and French through invasions and settlement. English has gone through periods of change and development from Old English to Middle English to Early Modern English to Modern English, with language change being unpredictable and influenced by both internal linguistic factors and external social, economic, geographical, political and historical conditions.
Language in society refers to human communication through words that are structured and used conventionally. A language can be used to refer to