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English is one of the languages in the West Germanic branch. Its vocabulary is primarily influenced by other Germanic and Romance languages, and particularly by the French language.
English has been developing for more than 1400 years. Old English was divided into four dialects: the Anglian dialects, Mercian and Northumbrian, and the Saxon dialects, Kentish and West Saxon . The earliest forms of English are called Old English, which was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century. After romans withdrawing from Britain, the Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons became dominant in Britain, replacing the languages of Roman Britain.By the sixth century, a Latin alphabet was adopted, written with half-uncial letterforms. Old English is very different
from Modern English and difficult for 21st-century English speakers to understand.
Middle English began with the conquest of England by the Norman in 1066 and developed further in the period from 1200 to 1450,and was a period in which the language was influenced by French.In the period from the 8th to the 12th century, Old English gradually transformed through language contact into Middle English. During the Middle English period many Old English grammatical features were simplified or disappeared. Middle English developed out of Late Old English, seeing many dramatic changes in its grammar, pronunciation and orthography. In the 14th century, English became dominant in Britain again. By the end of the 14th century, the dialect of London had emerged as the emerged
as the standard dialect of what we now call Middle English. By the 12th century Middle English was fully developed, integrating both Norse and Norman features; it continued to be spoken until the transition to early Modern English around 1500.
The next period in the history of English was Early Modern English. English began to rise in prestige during the reign of Henry V. Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London and the King James Bible, and the start of the Great Vowel Shift. All these factors had a major impact on the English language, especially on its vocabulary. The major source language was Latin, but loans from other languages, in particular French were also frequent. Literature from the Early Modern period included the works of William Shakespeare and King Fames
Bible influenced on the development of the English language during the last decades of the Renaissance.By 1750 most of the Old English irregular verbs had either dropped out of use or become regular. In this period, adjectives lost all endings except for in the comparative and superlative forms. And there were also a great many semantic changes, as old words acquired new meanings.
By the late 18th century, the British Empire had facilitated the spread of English through its colonies and geopolitical dominance.Settlers from Britain moved across the world from Britain moved across the world, the Modern English changed and developed, and took in words from other local languages. With the
increase in the communication, travel, radio and television, all these different types of English have mixed. So English continues to change and develop, with hundreds of new words appearing every year. A major feature in the early development of Modern English was the codification of explicit norms for standard usage, and their dissemination through official media such as public education and state sponsored publications.As the USA emerged as one of the economic powers of the 20th century, American English has become a dominant variety of the language. In terms of grammatical evolution, Modern English has now reached a stage where the loss of case is almost complete.。