History of English

1. History of English

Introductory Class.

2. The Place of English

1. What family does English belong to?
2. What other languages belong to the same group?

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5. Other big language families are:

• Sino-Tibetan
• Niger-Congo
• Dravidian
• Turkic

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Try to guess the origin of the following words:
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Apple
Father
Sun
husband
Mill
Earth
Street
Formula
Forget
Peace
Yard
Table
River
Apartment
Because
Horse
mutton
Trouble
Skirt
inch
egg
sheep
oral
life
pleasure
good
bishop
knife
two
house
a.
From Germanic stratum
b.
From Latin
c.
From common Indo-European language
d.
From Scandinavian
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From mediaeval French
f.
From modern French
Now try to order the language-sources chronologically
What can we conclude about the general history of Great
Britain?

7. British Prehistory and History, Proportions

Iron Age, 500 years
Bronze Age, 1,5 – 2,000 years
Neolithic, 1,5 – 2,000 years
British History, 2,000 years
Mesolithic, 5-6,000 years
British Prehistory, 29,000 years
Paleolithic, 19,000 years

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English
1154
1066
Normans +French + English
Normans
Scandinavians + Anglo-Saxons
799
Anglo-Saxons
437
409
43 AD
Romanized Celts
Roman Empire

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10. Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain

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• The Saxons - NorthWest Germany.
• The Angles - Angeln
in South-West
Denmark.
• Jutes -Jutland in
Central Denmark.

12. Great Britain in 400 - 600

13. Great Britain and Ireland c. 700

14. Political and administrative institutions

1.
The king (bretwalda)
2.
king’s council (Witan) - chose a king from the late king’s family
(until 11th century)
Anglo-Saxon king with
his witan

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Anglo-Saxons,
5th-10th centuries

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Futharc script

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Early Celtic Christian Monastery in Ireland
Glendalough. 6th – 10th centuries

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Celtic Crosses

19. Iona Abbey, founded by St. Columba in 563

20. Christianization of Anglo-Saxons

St. Augustine preaching before king
Ethelbert of Kent

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Illuminated
book.
Insular Script
(Gospel of
Mark, Book
of Durrow)