Wednesday 14 December 2016

The adventure of English-1.Birth of a language

    The film "The adventure of  English-1.Birth of a language" has introduced the development of English language.It absorbed different languages and cultures,perhaps it is one of the reasons  why  English has became now the language of  million people.Today English circles the globe.The film offers to us to explore how it has  became  the international language in the 21 century.
   1)  It is interesting to notice ,that 1,500 years ago on the island "Friesland" people used the language so similat to modern English.We can regognize some words: frost and freeze, blue,butter,bread,sleep,snow.The reason we can recognize these words- the same family of languages- the Germanic family.
    2) In 5 century Angles, Saxons ,then Celts came in this territories and brought thier language.Germanic tribes occupied half of Britain and brought new words,with wich we live today.
↵the ending -ing (in the modern place names)- means the people off -Darking, Ealing;
↿ton- means eclosure or a village - Taunton, Chessington)
↶ham-means farm- Cheltenham,Tottenham
   3)Some English words are 1,500 years old!
   4)A lot of the words came from Latin.
   5)English monk and scholar Bead was the first who wrote about the history of english-speaking people.
   6)English mixed with Danish /Now we can hear the echoes of Danes old language in the way people   speak.Some danish words stayed as the local dialects: beck is for stream,slattary is for shower.In English "you are sick",in north "you are ill".
   7)Old North lanhuage affected English language more than any other.
   8)Now we use prepositions instead of old English words endings.
   9)The King Alfred the Great made a depature from Latin to English language ,spreading it in his  Kongdom.
  10)English language absorbed French thanks The King William,who came in 1066.
 Castle,enemy were the 1st  of French words .In general, English absorbed more than 10.000 French  words( Crown,Courte,Cream,Fruit,market, ability,peasant vassal,prison,etc.)
       In conclusion, it should be add up,that English language made the difficalt way from it`s genesis to the it`s modern look.

3 comments:

  1. Hello, Ksenia. Good job, but quite a lot of graamar mistakes. We sa The Enlish language, ".... English has BECOME (we use Participle II) now the language of million.."

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  3. Thanks for your comment,i`ll try to correct my summary

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