英语的起源_英文.doc

English is a Germanic language family Indo-European in the West Germanic language branch. English, that is Great Britain's Anglo-Saxon language, it is under the influence of various factors, have been developed, enriched and gradually standardization.
English is divided into three periods:
Old English period (5th century -12 century)
Middle Ages (12th century -16 century)
Modern English period (16th century - present)
Old English period (5th century -12 century):
English involves the formation of three foreign invasion and a cultural revolution. In short, this language is ANGLES, Saxons and JUTES three Germanic tribes to the British's. Augustine and the early Christian leaders who chase after the British had converted to Christianity, the language accepted influence of Latin and Greek, Danish people are skillfully enrich the language, and finally by the French-speaking Normans it to transform.
5 century (about AD 449 years) living in the north-western Europe's three Germanic tribes Angles, Saxons, Jutes invaded the British Isles after another batch of these Germanic tribe belong to the Indo-European language spoken - West Germanic language family . Very close to each other. They used a technique called Runic text. This text is the ancient Germanic people’s common language, but also species from the ancient Greek and Latin words developed in the Nordic monument. With the development of human society, Angles, Saxons and Jutes gradually formed a unified English nation. Their respective dialects gradually integrated with the emergence of a new language - (Anglo-Saxon) this is the Old English.
597, Christian admitted to the United Kingdom, along with a large number of Latin words into the United Kingdom.
AD 793, the Nordic Viking invasion of Britain. Anglo - Saxon Nordic collectively referred to as those "Danes". Danish invasion of English influence: to simplify the English language, expression greatly enhanced.
In 1066, Normans conquered England; the English language has undergone yet another conflict. In 300 years, the French (the language of the conquerors) really became a British court, aristocracy, social and literary language, but language cannot be conquered people, English is still in use and development. Norman King of England's ruling does not prohibit the language of the British people; they are also trying to learn English. To twelve century English has become the British community spoken of the common people.
Middle Ages (12th century -16 century):
From the 13th century, English literature in the creation of ethnic parties in the region have made ​​there. Although the Latin and French is still used as a literary language, but the important creative works are written in English. From the latter half of the 13th century, English gradually replaced French and Latin.
1382, religious reformer, John Wycliffe professor of theology at Oxford University will be (The Bible) from Latin into English, and publicly advocate the use of English in church worship.
Modern period (16th century - present):
Renaissance, in order to express new things, new ideas, a lot of British writers and scholars have borrowed Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish vocabulary, and boldly to create new words, new language.
17th and 18th century English gradually toward standardization.
1755, (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784) editor (A Dictionary of the English language) come out.
The early 19th and 20th centuries the use of English is more than ever determined, more consistent.