Britain was inhabited by Celtic Tribes, who spoke various Celtic languages. Those L. are divided into 2 groups: – the Gallo-Bretons: 1) Gallic, which was spoken in Gaul(France); 2) British, represented by Welsh in Wales, Cornish, in Cornwall, and Briton in Brittany.

1. A good name is better than riches.
Arbeit gibt Brot, Faulheit bringt Not.
Audi multa, loquere pauca.

2. The Germanic Branch of the Indo-
European languages

4. the Runic alphabet

5. ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Britain was inhabited by Celtic Tribes, who spoke
various Celtic languages. Those L. are divided into 2 groups:
– the Gallo-Bretons:
1) Gallic, which was spoken in Gaul(France);
2) British, represented by Welsh in Wales, Cornish, in Cornwall,
and Briton in Brittany.

6. GERMANIC ALPHABET

7. The Germanic tribes ,which conquered
Britain in the 5th century belonged to 3 tribes

8. Jakob Grimm
(1785-1863)
Grimm's law describes the first non-trivial
systematic sound change to be discovered
in philology; its formulation was a turning point in
the development of linguistics, enabling
the introduction of a rigorous methodology
to historical linguistic research. The correspondence
between Latin p and Germanic f was first noted by
Friedrich von Schlegel in 1806.
In 1818, Rasmus Christian Rask elaborated
the set of correspondences to include other
Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit and Greek,
and the full range of consonants involved.
In 1822, Jakob Grimm formulated the law as
a general rule in his book Deutsche Grammatik,
and extended it to include standard German.
(Jakob was the elder of the Brothers Grimm.)

9. Learn by heart
Wodon þa wælwulfas (for wætere ne murnon),
wicinga werod, west ofer Pantan,
ofer scir wæter scyldas wegon,
lidmen to lande linde bæron.
þær ongean gramum gearowe stodon
Byrhtnoð mid beornum; he mid bordum het
wyrcan þone wihagan, and þæt werod healdan
fæste wið feondum. þa wæs feohte neh,
tir æt getohte. Wæs seo tid cumen
þæt þær fæge men feallan sceoldon.
þær wearð hream ahafen, hremmas wundon,
earn æses georn; wæs on eorþan cyrm.
Hi leton þa of folman feolhearde speru,
grimme gegrundene garas fleogan;