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English - A Historical Summary
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Old English
Period
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• The languages in England before English:
-Stone Age
-Bronze Age
-Iron Age
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Stone Age-Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age-Neolithic (New Stone) Age
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The Romans in Britain
• The Roman Conquest
• The Romanization of the island
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•The Latin Language in Britain
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The Germanic Conquest
Jutes Saxons Angles
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Map of Thanet
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Map of Anglo-Saxon England
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• Anglo-Saxon Civilization
-Northumbria -Mercia -East Anglia -Kent -Essex -Sussex -Wessex
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• The names “England” and “English” -Saxones -Saxonia -Angli -Anglia -Englisc (English) -Angles (Engle) -Anglecynn
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The origin and position of The origin and position of EnglishEnglish
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• The periods in the history of English
Old Middle Modern
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• WaterWater• StrongStrong• TheThe• OfOf• AA• HeHe• NoNo
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• The Dialects of Old English -Northumbrian
-Mercian
-West Saxon
-Kentish
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• Characteristics of Old English:
- Spelling and pronunciations Example. Scip (Ship), Benc (bench)
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-Vocabulary
The vocabulary of old English is almost purely Germanic . A large number of words borrowed from French and Latin.
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Grammar
InflectionalInflectional languagelanguage
SyntheticSynthetic AnalyticAnalytic
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Foreign influence on old English literature
• Latin through Celtic Transmission (Latin Influence of the first period
• The Earlier Influence of Christianity on the Vocabulary
• The Scandinavian Invasions of England
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• The contact of English with other languages:
• The Celtic influence
• Celtic place-names and Other loanwords
The RomansCeltsThe Scan-dinavian
English
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• Three Latin influences on old English:- It was a language of a highly regarded
civilization - For several hundred years , while the Germanic
tribes who later became the English were still occupying their continental homes, they had various relation with the Romans through which they acquired a considerable number of Latin words.
- And century and half later still, when Roman missionaries reintroduced Christianity into the island, this new culture influence resulted in a quite extensive Latin elements into the language.
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Old English Literature
• Pagan• Christianity
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Great literary works
• Beowulf • Widsith• Deor• The Wanderer• The Seafarer• The Ruin• The Battle of Brunanburh• The Battle of Maldon
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Beowulf
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The End