Fuck it we ball Flashcards
Grandest Granny Language of English
Proto-Indo-European (PIE)
What does Proto-Indo-European create?
Celtic! And lots of (variants) it!
Name a specific variant of Celtic… and more?
Proto-Germanic is orig in northen europe
What happes to pre roman english
Many dialects of celtic including proto-germanic come in and mingle
When roman conquer
55
when roman empire die like the little bitch it is?
5th C
Anglo-Saxons speaky?
north european germanic dialects, then “old english”
Anglosaxon written language type?
pictographic
when viking invade?
8-11C
What langy viking bring?
Old Norse
What norse controlled land?
North/East, “danelaw”
when norman conquest?
1066
after french and english and whatever else starts to merge, what we call it?
middle english
what act creates unprecendented literacy?
1867 Education Act