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by Anonymous on February 24th, 2007
Germanic tribes in the 5th Century AD
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by keithold is a prodigal bagger on February 24th, 2007
Macysayskiaora,
Thank you for your question.
English wasn't invented. It evolved originally from Anglo-Saxon and evolved through stages of Old English and Middle English. It has added hundreds of thousands of words from other languages and is spoken in countries throughout the world.
I have attached sources for your reference.
Regards
Wikipedia English language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
Ethnologue
by Joe-Speedy on February 24th, 2007
Ummm, the English?
by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 20th, 2007
Languages don't get invented..they develop. English is a development, with much influence from French and Latin (historical reasons) from Anglo Saxon, which in itself was a development from Germanic, a branch of the enormous Indo-European language famiy, flourishing in the Caucasus region c 3000 BC. Something happened which sent the family in many directions: some went to Europe and became the Germanic, Italic, Greek,Celtic and Slavic peoples, others went towards the Indian subcontinent and became the ancestors of the Iranians, the Pakistanis, Nepalis, Bengalis, Afghans and North Indians.
by Biggie15 on March 4th, 2007
The Saxons. English is a German dialect
by Sharkeye Jones on October 12th, 2007
Thomas Bernard English
by scouselad2007 on April 2nd, 2007
By Scouselad2007 The english language came from the latin language and also french, spanish and italian came from the latin language.
by Coezzy on October 12th, 2007
It was developed from Anglo-Saxon. It is also developed from German,Latin and French.It is a developed from many other european languages like spanish etc.
by blue whale on October 12th, 2007
the Saxons and the Normans
by blue whale on October 12th, 2007
the Normans had a hand in it as well
by GBPackersfan on March 4th, 2007
think, maybe the english
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