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400
Anglo-Saxon Invasion - 5th century
The British Isles were invaded by Saxons, Angles and Jutes, those invaders made a clear cut, and therefore almost obliterating the languages spoken before the invasion. Because of the invasion, the language devolped into what we know as 'English' -
Period: 400 to Jan 25, 1066
Old english 400-1066
The diffrent raiders, settlers, merchanctsand missionaries brought their own language to the English nation, and have by time developed into what we know as 'English' -
Jan 1, 787
Tow major influences on the English language
Latin from Christian missionaries and scholars aswell as Norse from the Danish vikings were to big influences on the English language, adding new words to the English vocabulary. Examples: Altar, birth. egg, grammatical. history, window -
Jan 1, 1066
The Norman Invasion
As a result of an invasion by the Normans, the people spoke french. The English/Norman king, his nobles and the elite spoke English. And lastly the clergy, bishops and priests spoke Latin. England had now become a trilangual nation. -
Period: Jan 1, 1066 to Jan 1, 1470
Middle English 1066-1470
In this period of time, the English language was adopting a lot of new words due to being a trilangual nation. -
Jan 1, 1476
The very first printing press
1476 was a crucial year for the history of the English language due to William Caxton setting up the first printing press. Now making a book wouldn't take months of hard work to do. Even though the printing press was a useful invention, did the printing run into a problem. The problem was, that there were a big diversity in terms of vocabulary, punctuation, spelling etc. -
Period: Jan 1, 1476 to
Early Mordern English 1476-1800
This is the time period where new regions of the world was explored, and new discoveries were made, which resulted in a lack of words. This is also a time period where the English language were getting a lot of new words and kept devolping, even though that brought some cocern, espeacially to authors, worrying about whether or not the future generation would be able to understand their works. -
Shakespeare and he King James Bilble
Both Shakespeare and the King James Bible contributed with alot of new words aswell as idiomatic phrases to the english language. Shakespeare is especially admired for the inventivenss and beauty of his language. Examples of idiomatic phrases:
Shakespeare: Love is blind King James Bible: An eye for an eye -
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Mordern English 1800-now
This is the timespan where the english language has developed and modified into what it is today.
