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History Of Lanuguage Flashcards

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700 bc

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The celts
Immigrants form east
Celtic britions in scotland, wales and ireland speak Gaelic

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43 AD

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The romans
Emperor Claudius ordered invansion of briton
Built fortresses, military roads baths and founded ex. London
Didnt settle
Legat after 400y
Place names remains

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449 AD

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  • Anglo saxons
    Barbarian germanic tribes started raiding British isles
    -britions fled to scotland, Wales and ireland
  • Anglo saxons became farmers
    -old English influenced by this
    -christians in the 7th century
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793-1066AD

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Scandinavians began AS raids for plunder, ended AS conquest and settlements

  • 9th century half of England in viking hands
  • king Alfred the great of Wessex never sucseed to take over the country
  • 900 words of scandinavian orgin
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1066 AD

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-Old English survived
Battle of hastings, king William of normandy conquered England
-french language and Habits to Britan
-french spoken for 300y by the upperclass

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1337-1554

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After war of france the upperclass didnt want to speak the language of the enemy.

  • English came back
  • 5-7 MIO people spoke English
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Colonosation

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1337-1554

  • British started to Explore the world
  • brougt English around
  • original languages in colonies
  • 19th century british empire streched around the world
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Elisabeth |

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Exporting to ireland pushing away native speaking popularitet

  • new lands, new products
  • Mass settlement in America
  • Declarence in 1776 13 colonies close to 4mio people
  • 20th century America 70mio largest speaking country
  • 314 MIO native speakers of English
  • French in Canada 2/3 r English speakers
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Captain cook voyages

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1770

  • terra australis incognito
  • convicts 1778 all from Britan
  • new zealand. Maori, NORTH America Australia settlement
  • India Malaysia not setteling
  • 20th century people lost interest for the empire
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Lingua franca

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A language used between people WHOs native languages are Different

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British commonwealth

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Are former countries of the British empire

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World english

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New RULES for correct

-languages worldwide influence the composition of the language

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Emperor

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Keiser

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Fortresses

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Festning

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Tribes

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Stamme

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Raid

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Plyndre

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Origin

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Opprinnelse

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Conquer

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erobre

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Expanisonism

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Utvidelsesvirksomhet

20
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5000 years ago

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The first settlers

Bulit Stone monuments

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