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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH - Coggle Diagram
THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH
Hundreds of millions of people speaks or learns English
TIME LINE
450 AD 5th century Germanic migration
(old English, Anglo-Saxon)
brought a kind of old English totally
26% words that came from Germanic
above, again, apple, bad, good, cake, eat, drink, feet, arm, boy, girl, house, hand, bread, food (parts of body)
6th century Christianity
(latin, Greek, Hebrew)
Greek 6%
academic, android, basic, cinema, climate, democracy, economy, geography, history, idea, politics, technology
Hebrew is include in other 6%
8th-11th century Viking invasions
(Scandivan languages, old norse)
1066 Norman Invasion
(French, Latin) Normans were France
29% words French:
beef, pork, veal
maybe originally latin:
continue, liberty, justice, journey, people, very
55 BC
ROMAN
INVASION
(latin) of Britain, of the Uk
Roman pire with Julius Caesar and all other Caesars, the Roman
29% words:
human, decimal, dental, decimal, digital, factory, manual, lunar, solar, military, science, station
was influenced by Spanish, Italian...
15th-16th century people started to explore the world
for example America
influenced the British language
18th-19th century colonialism, British Empire
(political in other countries)
20th-21th century
developing of words from Asia
balcony, bangle, bungalow, guru, kiosk, pajamas, sandals, shampoo
Internet and technology
hoover and google (names)
converted to a verb
to google
hoovering