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First inhabitants Celts Celtic Languages Names Britain and British may derive. Words were borrowed from latin into Germanic Wales Scottish Ireland English Language Latin Roman invasion Celtic Language survive to the present in: wall wine street Germanic tribes occupied the British Isles Jutes Saxons Angles The word “English” derives from this tribe. It is estimated that half of the vvocabulary of English come from: Latin French
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Differences among languages. sounds words sentences Modern English has: 13 or 14 vowels 25 consonants Syllable structure is complex. Navajo and Inuit has 4 vowels Finnish has 13 consonants Navajo and Japanese do not have consonants clusters Old English Modern English is more like Chinese Old English is more like Navajo Sociolinguistic anonymous Sociolinguistic anonymous
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External Changes have to do with Linguistics reasons Internal Changes have to do with social economical political reasons
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Celtic-speakers inhabitants were pushed out into scothland, Wales 3 tribes from Germany came to Britain: Saxons, Angles and Jutes Saxles+Jutes= Old English or Anglo Saxonons+Ang 450 It provided many geographical names, such as Kent, Avon, Dover and loch. Introduction of Cristianity, latin words, such as; abbot, altar and hymn. 597878 Scandinavian may be the most important of the external influences, words such as egg, keel, leg, ill, odd, bask, call, crave. 1066 William of Normandy arrived and defeated Harold during the Battle of Hastings, word such as; government, authority and judge.
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