EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

english language

OLD ENGLISH

500 BC

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MIDDLE ENGLISH

1066

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evolution of the English Language

5th CENTURY BC - 21th century

MODERN ENGLISH

1500

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VARIANTS

1606

English history

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The English language is the result of a mixture of many languages that were spoken in ancient Europe, mainly it is the result of the mixture of the languages known as Celtic, Welsh, and Breton, which with the development of humanity has given us the language as a result. English we know today

ORIGIN

PERIODS

Later in 1066, William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy, conquered England. The Normans brought French with them, they eliminated almost the whole English nobility and imposed the French language in English territories. This Middle English which is the fusion of Old English and French is the base of the contemporary or modern English language

MIDDLE ENGLISH

• Early Middle English, from about 1100 to about 1250.
• The Central Middle English period from about 1250 to about 1400.
• Late Middle English, from about 1400 to about 1500.

DIALECTS

• Southern chiefly in the counties south of the River Thames.
• Midland, the Mercian dialect area of Old English times.
• Northern, in the rest of kingdoms

The transition period from Middle to Modern English was marked by the death of Chaucer in 1400. The fifteenth century saw the rise of London English, the invention of the printing press, and the spread of the new way of learning associated with the Renaissance.Many words from other languages became part of English due to the Renaissance. classical learning.At the beginning of the 16th century, it was possible to recognize the modern style that English prose took and many authors used terms that were too pretentious, or academic words. All of this led to the printing of the first English dictionary in 1604.

MODERN ENGLISH

William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet during this historical period.

Linguistic varieties are different forms of the same language according to the place where the speaker lives (this variety is called dialect), his age (this variety is called chronolect) and his social group, which is also influenced by the level of education (sociolect). Main types of English spoken in the world.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VARIANTS

SOUTH AFRICAN

AMERICAN

BRITISH

CANADIAN

NEW ZEALAND

AUSTRALIAN

INDIAN

CARIBBEAN

BRITISH Also called "Old English". Several accents are distinguished: London English, Southern English, Northern English and that of Scotland, which are Standard Scottish English and Scottish Gaelic. It is estimated that there are about 43 accents in the United Kingdom, not counting the variations within each accent.

AMERICAN

• American English is more similar to Shakespeare´s English than modern British English.

• The best known and, therefore, the most widely used. These are classified into three main groups: Northern, Central and Southern. Each has differences not only in vocabulary, but also in syntax, morphology and pronunciation.

• There were other languages that also influenced American English such as Spanish, French and some West African Words that were adopted as a result of the slave trade

CANADIAN It is a mixture of American and British idiomatic elements created by migratory waves that occurred over two centuries, so it is actually a combination of English from England, the United States, French and Aboriginal words.

NEW ZEALAND It is very similar to that spoken in Australia, although the majority influence in New Zealand English is not indigenous, but from Irish and Scottish immigrants.

AUSTRALIAN Australian is characterized by the fact that it still preserves the use of certain indigenous words to name animals, plants and some places on the continent. Regarding its internal varieties, there are three classes: Broad, General and Cultivated Australian.

INDIAN This is the standard form used in India. It has been greatly influenced by Hindi, the other official language of the country.

CARIBBEAN This is the name given to the type of English spoken in the Caribbean region. But, although the entire dialect is called this way, each country has its own variations.

SOUTH AFRICAN This variety has many peculiar characteristics and has had two particular influences: Dutch and Afrikaans, which is a local language.

OLD ENGLISH

The origins of the English began in the 5th century AD, when Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and Jutes crossed the North Sea in order to invade Britain. The language spoken at that time by British people was a Celtic one. Old English received the influence of Celtic, Latin languages. But Anglo-Saxons influence was greater.

The English Language belongs to the Indo-European family of languages which means that it comes from the Celtic groups in antiquity.

The Anglo-Saxon Parker Chronicle was written in that time; which was translated from Latin into the West Saxon dialect, All these resulted in West Saxon’s becoming “standard Old English.” An example of Old English is the Beowulf, which is considered one of the most important works of English Literature.