Where did English come from?

-1- When we talk about English, we usually often think of it as a single language.

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Unlike most languages, English has evolved through generations of speakers, undergoing major changes over time.

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Modern English shares many similar words with Latin-derived Romance languages, like French and Italian.

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When the French-speaking Normans became the ruling class in England in 1066, they brought their speech with them, adding lots of French and Latin vocabulary to the English language previously spoken there.

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You might recognize Old English if you know some German

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Old English belongs to the Germanic language family, and it was first brought to the British Isles in the 6th and 7th centuries by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.

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- In the 8th to 11th centuries Viking invaders added more borrowings from Old Norse into the English of those times.

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- Comparative linguistics can help us to see the roots of Modern English by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary

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- English, Swedish, German, and many other languages descended from their own common ancestor known as Latin.

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A language called Proto-Indo-European was spoken about 6000 years ago on the Pontic steppe in modern day Ukraine and Russia.

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