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597 BCE
THE INFLUENCE
In the year 597 the Roman Catholic Church began its attempt to make Christianity the religion of Britain
The language of the Catholic Church was Latin Latin was not spoken as a language in any country that time
Rome to speak to a church member from Britain
Educated people from different countries could communicat usin Latin
Latin had a great effect on the English language
The Latin word became several words English including disk dis,and desk
The Latin word quietus became English word quiet -
523
The anglon-saxon invasion
The English language is a result of the invasions of the island of Britain. The Angles were a German tribe.
They were the Saxons and the Jutes. These groups found a people called the Celts, who had lived inBritain.Through the years, the Saxons, Angles and Jutes mixed their different languages. The result is what is called Anglo-Saxon or Old English. Old English is extremely difficult to understand. -
576
THE INFLUENCE OF THE PERSTING PRESS AND WAS SHAKESPEARE
English began to grow more kicli when William Caxton returned to Britain in the year 576 He had been in bament and other areas of Europe where he had learned printing.
The printing press made it possible for almost anyone to buy a book. It helped spread education and the English langues Slowly, during the fifteen hundreds, English became the madelanguage we would recognize
English speakers today would be able to communicate with English speakers in the last part of the sixteenth century -
Jan 1, 923
The vikings in britain
The next great invasion of Britain came from the far North beginning about 1,100 years ago.
The Vikings came from Denmark, Norway and other northern countries.
the Vikings became so powerful they built temporary bases.
These temporary bases sometimes became Permanent. Later, many Vikings stayed in Britain. Many English words used today come from these Ancient Vikings.
Words like “sky,” “leg,” “skull,” “egg,” “crawl,” “lift” and “take” are from the old languages of the far northern countries -
Apr 18, 1066
The norman conquest
The next invasion of Britain led William the Conqueror.
French-speaking people from Normandy in the north of France.
It was the language of educated people. But the common people of Britain still spoke Old English.
The French language used by the Norman rulers greatly changed the way English was spoken by 800 years ago. -
BRITISH INFLUENCE OF NORT AMERICA
The development of the English language took a giant step just nine years before the death of William Shakespeare
Three small British ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1607
in an area that would later become the southern American state of Virginia
The name of the first small colony was Jamestown
In time, people in these new colonies began to call areas of their new land by words borrowed from the native people they found living there.
the United States are taken from American Indian words