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major language families are:

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  • INDO-EUROPEAN
  • URAL-ALTAIC
  • AMERICAN INDIAN – the indigenous languages of the Americas
  • DRAVIDIAN - historically limited to the south of the Indian subcontinent and some areas to the north
  • HAMITIC - Egyptian, Berber (spoken over North Africa and the Sahara)
  • SINO-TIBETAN – the most extensive language family in eastern Asia
  • AUSTRONESIAN – includes the indigenous languages of the Philippines, of Taiwan, of Micronesia and Polynesia, and most of those in Indonesia and Malaysia.
  • SEMITIC
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URAL-ALTAIC

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  • Ural: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

- Altaic: Turkish, Mongolian

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DRAVIDIAN

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  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Kannada
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HAMITIC

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  • Egyptian, Berber
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SINO-TIBETAN

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a. Tibeto-Burman

b. Chinese

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SEMITIC

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includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic (the official language of Ethiopia), Syrian.

Others were important in antiquity, especially Akkadian (spoken especially in Assyria and Babylonia), Aramaic and, Phoenician.

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THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY

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  • The most extensively spoken group of languages in the world
  • PIE gave rise to several language families
  • These are often classified as:
    a. centum languages
    b. satem languages, according to the development of the PIE
    word for hundred (with a k sound as in Latin centum or an s sound as in Sanskrit satem).
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Proto-Indo European (PIE)

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= common source

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Centum languages

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  1. Celtic Languages
  2. Hellenic
  3. Italic Languages
  4. Germanic Languages
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Celtic Languages

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  1. Continental Celtic

2. Insular Celtic

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Insular Celtic

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Gaelic or Goidelic

Cymric or Brittanic

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Germanic Languages

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East, West, North Germanic

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Continental Celtic

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a range of unwritten and extinct languages, the best known of which is Gaulish

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Gaelic or Goidelic

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Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Manx

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  • Cymric or Brittanic
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Welsh, Cornish

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Hellenic dialects

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Aeolic, Doric and Ionic

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became the basis of a standard dialect for the Greek world

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Attic

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major dialects in the ancient Italy

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Oscan, Umbrian and Latin

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East Germanic languages

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Gothic is the only East Germanic language of which we have any detailed knowledge

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North Germanic languages

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Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese

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West Germanic languages

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English, Dutch, German, Flemish (Dutch spoken in Belgium), Frisian

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Satem languages

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  1. Balto-Slavic
  2. Albanian
  3. Armenian
  4. Indo-Iranian
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Baltic languages

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Lithuanian, Lettish, Prussia

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Slavic languages

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(East) Russian, Ukrainian; (West) Polish, Czech, Slovak;

(South) Bulgarian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croat

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they were the earliest inhabitants of the British islands; their influence spread to Britain and Ireland in the late Bronze Age and Iron Age
THE CELTS
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a name for the parts of Britain where many people are descended from Celts, such as Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall. The phrase is used mainly by people of England, who feel that they have a different way of life
the Celtic fringe
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They occupied Britain from around 55 BC to AD 410
THE ROMANS
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Julius Caesar came to Britain in
55 BC and 54 BC, defeating the local Celtic tribes
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The Celtic tradition is also known for decorating texts from the Bible such as
the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels
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in AD 43 the emperor Claudius ordered an invasion and southern Britain became ...
Britannia, a province of the Roman Empire which was ruled by a Roman governor
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the Romans founded over 20 large towns called coloniae, including
Colchester, Gloucester and Lincoln
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the Picts lived in northern Scotland between....
the 1st and 9th centuries AD
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ANGLES, SAXONS, JUTES – these Germanic invaders came to the island (not as allies, but as conquerors) in...
449
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VIKING INVASIONS – the Vikings attacked parts of northern and western Europe, including Britain and Ireland, in the..... in Britain they were also known as.....
8th – 11th centuries Danes or Norsemen
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Germanic invaders called the native Celts ......
Wealas (foreigners); today Welsh.
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The native Celts called the Germanic invaders....
Sassenachs (Saxons)
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the term (Angles) was used in the ...
6th century
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the Latin name for the country was Angli or Anglia in the..
7th century
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Angli/Anglia became Engle (OE) then....
Engleland (10th century)
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the name of language was
Englisc (sc=sh)
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PERIODS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH
1. OLD ENGLISH PERIOD (450 - 1066) 2. MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (1066 - 1500) 3. MODERN ENGLISH PERIOD (1500 - )
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the literary age (of OE) began
after the first Christian missionaries from Rome came (597 AD);
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glossaries of Latin words were translated into OE- the most important work
Beowulf (1000)
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OE spelling had some features:
- absence of capital letters; - some letters were absent (f, j, v, x, z); - numbers were written in Roman symbols
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(oe) language was characterized by the frequent use of..... | e. g. banhus (bone house) for ‘a person’s body
coinages (aka kennings)
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early materials are of limited value; they were written in French or Latin
middle english
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language is characterized by leveling of endings/losing of inflections
middle english
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Caxton sets up the printing press in Westminster in ..
in 1476
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Inner Circle
where English is the primary language
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Outer Circle
English is used in institutions; India, Nigeria, Singapore
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Expanding Circle
English has no special status; China, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Romania

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