The History of the English Language by Risa

The Topic of this article is the History of English and is for all kind of audience English learners, native speakers, teenagers etc. The purpose of this article is to inform us how the English arrived to Britain and the how it expands and it has a formal tone because of the way it is write and academic. English has become the dominant world language, although it is not that old.  The English starts in England during the fifth century and that language was spoken by the Angels and the Saxons and called it “englisc”. English is family of the West-Germanic sub-family of the Germanic family of the Indo-European languages. Another language of that sub-family that still remain is Frisian and it is a relative of the Old English of the Angels and Saxons, and the only placed were that language remain it’s in “Anglia”. Latin was the language in common in the South and East, Celtic with West and Northwest; Pictish to the North and the East, and then “englisc” arrived. It passed until the tenth century to become English the language on common of England, and this occur when Athlestan, Alfred the Great grandson conquered all the kingdoms south of the Firth of Forth. And in the documents it records distinct of Old English but almost all the documents that survived in Old English are in the West Saxon dialect. The center of the English Speaking was constantly changing, in the early centuries was York in Northumbria but Alfred changed to the couth and center on Winchester. And then after a lot of movements the languages of power centered on London and have remained there and that had a profound effect in the language we use today. Words had change trough times and over time the part of a word we stress moves from back to the front of the word.  They say that all this changes may come from the 15^th and 16^th century known as the “great vowel shift”.

This article is really interesting because it explains your more since the first ones who speak it and how they used it. Another way that helped me how to understand how words or the languages had been changing through times like how folk’s was pronounced flocES  and examples help a lot in a reading most in this kind of things; I like the way she writes because make you keep reading and also understand it.  It is to interesting how the English language has change too much from times but like she says at the end only dead languages do not change so this means that this language will continue to change and also to be a world dominant language.