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some tribus germanics invated and settled in britain. their language became the anglo-sajon language, called later the old english
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nordic tribu that plundered everything.
the old english was mixed with old norse ended up contributing with more than 2000 new words to the local english -
william shakespeare, introduced more than 2000 words to the english language. his time is know as early modern english
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more than 75% on the information avaliable online is written down in english, the dominat language
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english has approximately 400 millions native speakers and is also spoke as a second language by some 1.8 billion people worldwide, these data place it as the most spoken language on earth
