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EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
DANIEL ALEXANDER CORAL BUSTOS
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evolution of the English Language
5th CENTURY BC - 21th century
1606
ENGLISH LANGUAGE VARIANTS
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MIDDLE ENGLISH
1066
english language
English history
OLD ENGLISH
500 BC
MODERN ENGLISH
1500
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ORIGIN
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
MIDDLE ENGLISH
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
PERIODS
- 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
MODERN ENGLISH
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.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE VARIANTS
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.