The history of English begins a little after A.D. 600. English is a Germanic Language of the Indo –European Family Indo – European English French Latin Greek Swedish Russian Hindi History of English is divided into three: • Old English (7th century-1100): is a language rich with morphological diversity and is pronoun essentially as it is spelt. Old English Hie dygel lond Warigeath, wulf –hleothu, windige naessas, Frence fen –gelid, there forge –steam Under naessas genipap, neither gaited Flod under foldan. Modern English Lonely and waste is the land they inhabit, Wolf –cliffs wild and windy headlands, Ledges of mist. Where and mountain torrents Downward plunge to dark abysses And flow unseen. Beowuef (printed in the modern alphabet) • Middle English(1100-1450/1500): The sound system & grammar wasn’t so effected but vocabulary was effected much. Middle English A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That un –to logik hadde longe y –go. Modern English A Clerk that is an Oxford scholar – who Looked hollow to his bones, and threadbare, too. • Modern English (1500-now):the change was the elimination of a vowel sound and the Great Vowel Shift . PORTUGAL (marmalade) FRANCE (boutique) HOLLAND (yacht) NORWAY (ski) FINLAND (sauna) SWEDEN (ombudsman) GERMANY (kindergarten) ITALY (piano) RUSSIA (bistro) GREECE (theory) SPAIN ( mosquito) ENGLISH WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS FROM OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGES . The history of English begins a little after A.D. 600. English is a Germanic Language of the Indo –European Family Indo – European English French. his bones, and threadbare, too. • Modern English (1500-now) :the change was the elimination of a vowel sound and the Great Vowel Shift . PORTUGAL (marmalade)