ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT HISTORY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of the development of the English language. The history of the English language is analyzed in different periods.

English has its roots in the languages of the Germanic peoples of Northern Europe. During the Roman Empire, most of the German settlements (Germany) remained independent of Rome, although some southwestern districts were part of the empire. Some Germans served in the Roman army. Troops of Germanic tribes, such as the Tungras, Batavians, and Friezes, served in Britain under the Romans. German settlements expanded during the Great Migrations with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The languages spoken by the Germanic peoples, who originally settled in Great Britain, were part of the West Germanic branch of the Germanic language family. They consisted of dialects of the Ingwean language group (named after a large group of German tribes of the Ingevons) spoken by the northern peoples of modern Denmark, North-West Germany and the Netherlands. Due to some similarities between the old English and the old Frisian languages, this group was called the Anglo-Frisian languages.