-
1000 BCE
Celt Migrations
Celtic -1000 BCE -
200
Roman Occupation
Latin
43-410 CE -
400
Germanic Settlements
Late 400
Brought to the English Isles century V -VI
ANGLO SAXONS AND JUTES = ANGLOSAXON -
800
Viking Invasion
Old Norse = North Germanic (1% English today)
787-1000s -
1000
Norman Invasion
Anglo-Norman
Old French
1000s-1154
Anglo-Norman French: 7.000 words today -
1500
Renaissance Mixing
French, Latin, Greek, Italian
1400s-1600s
1476 Printing Press comes to England -
Empire Imports
1700s
Hindi-Persian
Arabic-Turkish
Malay- American English -
Late Modern English
Industrial Revolution
Colonialism -
English Today
Techonology
Jargon/Slang