When did English appear? Detailed answer

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When did English appear?

Over 400 million people consider English their mother tongue. Chinese is the native language of over 650 million. Nevertheless, English is considered the most important means of linguistic communication of people around the world. This happened because in politics, in business relations, English is the main language today. In many countries, it is the second state language.

English appeared about 5 centuries ago. Like most European languages, it basically belongs to the Indo-European language group. Five thousand years ago, it may have been the language of communication among the peoples who inhabited the south of modern Russia, or the nomadic tribes who lived between the Rhine and the Aral Sea. However, before history recorded it, the peoples who spoke this ancient language were scattered around the world, and it itself broke up into various dialects. One of these dialects, known as Old Germanic or Teutonic, began to divide into other dialects at the beginning of our era. Two main ones were formed: East German and West German. The latter, in turn, was divided into two more: High German and Low German dialects.

From High German came the modern German language.

From Low German came Danish and English.

It should be noted that the process of development of the English language from the Low German dialect was long in time and complex in changes. The first stage of the transition can be called the Old English or Anglo-Saxon dialect. During the period of the Anglo-Saxon conquest (about 449), it merged with the language of the Britons. Of course, this fusion of the language of the conquerors with the language of the local peoples gave rise to a new language, which until 1150 was called Old English. From 1150 to 1500 it was called Middle English, and after 1500 the language we now know as Modern English developed.

Author: Likum A.

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