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- 1. ARMY POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL DISTANCE EDUCATION UNIT Subject: HISTORY OF ENGLISH Name: Males Andrea Learning Activity 1 Tutor: Msc. Maricela Madrid
- 2. Where did it begin? The natives, the Celts or Bbritons English arrived in the fifth century With Germanic warrior tribes from across the sea THE COMMON TONGUE English has its roots Germanic people of northern Europe During the Roman Empire Germanic Tribes such as the Tungri, Batavi, Menapii and Frisii
- 3. Time line 55BC Roman invasion (Latin) 45 AD (5th) Germanic migration (Old English, Anglo-Saxon and Jutes) (6th) Christianity (Latin, Greek, Hebrew) (8th -11th ) Viking invasions (Scandinavian languages, Old Norse) 1066 Norman invasion (French, Latin)
- 4. The fight with the British Celts •Went on for over a hundred years Sanskrit is one the older attested members •The mother of British language is Proto Indo- European Germanic formed a subgroup •Of the Western Indo-European family Germanic is divided into three smaller groups; •North: The Scandinavian language, old norse •West;Dutch, German, Frisian and English
- 5. Celtic language left little mark on English These words often describe particular landscape features For example; “tor” and”pen” meaning hill or hill-top *Torpenhow *Penrith Two dozen words were recruited to the conquering language
- 6. The Germanic settlers in the British Isles initially spoke a number of different dialects Anglo-Saxon, or sometimes Anglo-Frisian. It is impossible to say just when English became a separate language, rather than just a German dialect, Old English was replaced by a version of the Latin alphabet introduced by Irish missionaries in the 9th century.
- 7. BeforeEnglish c.6000 BC Britain cut off from continental Europe by English Channel c.5000 BC Proto-Indo-Europeans living in Eastern Europe and Central Asia c.500 BC Celts inhabit much of Europe, and beginning to colonize the British Isles OldEnglish 792 Viking raids of Britain begin c.800 Old English epic poem “Beowulf” composed 871 Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex, encourages English prose and translation of Latin works
- 8. IN SHORT
- 9. The Great scape Fighting the Viking invasion Alfred is the only English monarch to be known as “The Great” He has been hailed as the Saviour of England The Vikings had brought their own language (Danes) In 868, Alfred is recorded as fighting
- 10. Old Norse Loan words include; birth, cake, call, dregs, egg, etc. words that we actually use The order of words and preposition became important The “sk” sound is a characteristic of Old Norse and English Old English Tended already to use the order of the grammar (subject, verb and object)
- 11. Old Norse was that deeply bitten in to Old North English survive the Danish invasion, it was beneficent Hybrid country dialect used words in spoken by the majority in Britian Parts of England was also subject to strong Old Norse influence due to Scandinavian
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