History of the English language

Question 1

Which family of Languages does England and Freiland share?

Answer 1

Germanic family Language

Question 2

List 6 words similar to both.

Answer 2

Butter, bread, sleep, meal, boat

Question 3

What do these endings mean? ton and ham

Answer 3

Ton: Enclosure/Village
Ham: Far

Question 4

What is Anglo- Saxon is also known as?

Answer 4

Anglo- Saxon is also known as Old English 250AD - 1100AD

Question 5

List some words from this language.

Answer 5

Nouns: Youth, daughter, son, home, field, friend
The number system
Preposition: the, that, in, on, onto, and, by
Numbers: Use of all the numbers
Verbs: drink, come, go

Question 6

List 3 ways in which the revival of Christianity affected the development of Old English.

Answer 6

In 597 Augustine led mision from Rome to Kent, England. He brought Latin the international language of christianity - alter, apostle, mass.
Introduction of Latin provided the runic alphabet ( wrote in Runes), meaning simplified words/characters.
All religious documents were written in Latin -Latin books (Verbum) The word.

Question 7

Name some compound words that appeared in Old English.

Answer 7

Joy wood: Harp
War board: Shield
Bonehouse: Body

Question 8

What was the language of the Viking conquerors?

Answer 8

Old Norse

Question 9

What did Alfred the Great do for the English Language?

Answer 9

The great defender of the English language.
Called upon the army to help him fight against the Danes( Danish Army).
He tried to review Old English and made scholars use the English language so people could understand.

Question 10

What happened with English and the Danish Language?

Answer 10

Both languages merged as they allowed to trade, marry and interact with each other
The English language then began to adapt/ adopt to the Danish language

Question 11

What do these endings mean? by, Thorpe and thwaite?

Answer 11

Thorpe: denoting a village
Thwaite: a portion of land

Question 12

history of the English language Overall

Answer 12

In the 1500 years since the Romans left Britain, English has shown a unique ability to absorb, evolve, invade, and steal. After foreign settlers got it started, it grew into a fully-fledged language all of its own, before leaving home and traveling the world, first via the high seas then via the high-speed broadband connection, pilfering words from over 350 languages and establishing itself as a global institution. All this, despite a written alphabet that bears no correlation to how it sounds, and a system of spelling. Right now, around 1.5 billion people speak English.