System of Old English, and the spelling had changed under Norman influence.įor example, the Old English letters þ (thorn) and When English literatureīegan to reappear in the 13th century the language had lost the inflectional Language spoken by ordinary people, while the nobility spoke Norman, whichīecame Anglo-Norman, and the clergy spoke Latin. Vocabulary, and for the next three centuries English became a mainly oral The Norman invasion of 1066 brought with it a deluge of Norman and Latin More details of Old English Middle English They are also said to retain some aspects of pronunciation from Old Norse. To this day varieties of English spoken in northernĮngland contain more words of Norse origin than other varieties of English. Settling in parts of Britain, particularly in the north and east, from Old English, and began to appear in writing during the 5thĮnglish acquired vocabulary from Old Norse after Norsemen starting
These languages are known collectively as Anglo-Saxon or The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and other Germanic tribes from about the 5thĬentury AD. Status: official language in 67 countries and 27 non-sovereign entitiesĮnglish evolved from the Germanic languages brought to Britain by.Writing system: Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (5th-11th centuries), Latin script.Spoken in: the UK, Ireland, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and many other countries.Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic.Countries where English is widely spoken include: the UK, Ireland, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Malta, Cyprus, Barbados, Marshall Islands, Jamaica, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, Dominica, Palau, Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Suriname, Vanuatu, Anitgua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Cayman Islands, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Belize, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Austria, Germany, Finland, Switzerland and Belgium. Speak English as a native language, and a further 850 million speak it as a There are about 1.2 billion speakers of English. It has a significant amount of vocabulary from Old Norse, Norman French, Latin and Greek, and loanwords from many other languages. It is related to Scots, Dutch, Frisian and other Germanic languages. English belongs to the Anglo-Frisian branch of the Germanic language family.
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