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16-12-2022 - 03:51 pm
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Here it is
The History of The English Language
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What are the origins of the English Language?
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The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly
divided into three periods usually called Old English (or Anglo-Saxon
Middle English, and Modern English. The earliest period begins with the
migration of certain Germanic tribes from the continent to Britain
in the fifth century A.D., though no records of their language survive from
before the seventh century, and it continues until the end of the eleventh century
or a bit later. By that time Latin, Old Norse (the language of the Viking invaders)
and especially the Anglo-Norman French of the dominant class after the Norman
Conquest in 1066 had begun to have a substantial impact on the lexicon, and
the well-developed inflectional system that typifies the grammar of Old
English had begun to break down.
The following brief sample of Old English prose illustrates several of the significant ways in which change has so transformed English that we must look carefully to find points of resemblance between the language of the tenth century and our own. It is taken from Aelfric's "Homily on St. Gregory the Great" and concerns the famous story of how that pope came to send missionaries to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity after seeing Anglo-Saxon boys for sale as slaves in Rome:
Eft he axode, hu ðære ðeode nama wære þe hi
of comon. Him wæs geandwyrd, þæt hi Angle
genemnode wæron. Þa cwæð he, "Rihtlice hi
sind Angle gehatene, for ðan ðe hi engla wlite
habbað, and swilcum gedafenað þæt hi on
heofonum engla geferan beon."
A few of these words will be recognized as identical in spelling with their modern equivalents—he, of, him, for, and, on—and the resemblance of a few others to familiar words may be guessed—nama to name, comon to come, wære to were, wæs to was—but only those who have made a special study of Old English will be able to read the passage with understanding. The sense of it is as follows:
Again he
asked what might be the
name of the people from which they came. It
was answered to him that they were named
Angles. Then he said, "Rightly are they called
Angles because they have the beauty of
angels, and it is fitting that such as they should
be angels' companions in heaven."
Some of the words in the original have survived in altered form, including axode (asked), hu (how), rihtlice (rightly), engla (angels), habbað (have), swilcum (such), heofonum (heaven), and beon (be). Others, however, have vanished from our lexicon, mostly without a trace, including several that were quite common words in Old English: eft "again," ðeode "people, nation," cwæð "said, spoke," gehatene "called, named," wlite "appearance, beauty," and geferan "companions." Recognition of some words is naturally hindered by the presence of two special characters, þ, called "thorn," and ð, called "edh," which served in Old English to represent the sounds now spelled with th.
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