History of English L A N G U A G E
English is a West Germanic ******** that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers and Roman auxiliary
troops from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the Northern Netherlands. Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England. One of these dialects, Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate. The original Old English ******** was then influenced by two waves of invasion. The first was by ******** speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family; they conquered and colonized parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries. The second was the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman. These two invasions caused English to become "mixed" to some degree (though it was never a truly mixed ******** in the strict linguistic sense of the word; mixed ********s arise from the cohabitation of speakers of different ********s, who develop a hybrid tongue for basic communication).
Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant grammatical simplification and lexical enrichment of the Anglo-Frisian core of English; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of words from the Romance branch of the European ********s. This Norman influence entered English largely through the courts and government. Thus, English developed into a "borrowing" ******** of great flexibility and with a huge vocabulary.
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