... 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 ... (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 ... –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....