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Discovering the history of English - Coggle Diagram
Discovering the history of English
It's developed over hundred and hundred of years.
Today hundreds of millions of people speak English all over the world
but
The English we know today is different from it used to be, and it has changed a lot over time
Let's see how it has evolved - timeline
We start from the 55 BC, and we're coming up to 1066
from
Of course, it didn't just evolve until 1066
But other things happened, in the 15th century, 16th century, people started exploring the world, going off in ships and finding other countries, finding places like America
And the Portuguese, for example, found India and China.
Then 18th, 19th century colonialism, British empire,
55 BC
The Roman invation of Britain
Hadrian's Wall
Brought the Latin language
Some words that we use today that were influenced or came from Latin words
Digital, Decimal, Dental, Human, Animal, Manual, Lunar ...
29% of the words in the English language have come from a Latin origin
450 AD (Anno Domini)
German Migration from the Saxon area of Germany.
Brought with them the Anglo-Saxon
Like Romans
Let's see a few examples of the Germanic words
Above, and, again, apple, bad, good ...
6th century
Saint Augustine
Came and started converting people to Christianity
This meant bringing languages with him, like the Bible
Latin came in again, Greek and Hebrew
So, looking at Greek, just 6% of the English words come from Greek
Some examples:
Academic, basic, cinema, climate,economy ...
Spread around all the country
8th-11th century
Invasions from Vikings, who came from Scandinavian countries, like Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Brought their Scandinavian languages
like Old Norse
Input into the Germanic types of languages
1066
The norman invasion
Brought French for the first time and some more Latin again
Some examples:
Beef, pork, continue, liberty, justice...