martes, 12 de abril de 2016

How did English evolve? - Kate Gardoqui. Entry #3




This video tells us the origin of some English words that are frequently used nowadays. In the year 400 C.E. the Celtics in Britain were ruled by the Romans who protected them from the Barbarian tribes but soon after the Roman empire collapsed, the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain and they stablished their Germanic language as the common language. This is what we call "Old English".
In the 700, several Viking invasions divided the island into two, the Saxons on the one hand and the Danes, who spoke Old Norse, on the other hand. The mixture of Old English and Old Norse resulted from the marriage between this two cultures.

         Finally, in 1066, the Normans from France invaded Britain and placed William the Conqueror on the English throne and French became the language of the royalty. They also brought Clergy members who added words from Latin. Consequently, Old English took in words from different styles and origins and grew as the language that is today.



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