Presented by : M.Altaf

Department of English

ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Adventure of English Language

BIRTH OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• The modern Frisian language is the closest sounding language to the English used approximately 2000 years ago, when the people from what is now the north of the Netherlands travelled to what would be the United Kingdom and pushed the Celts to the western side of the island. Words like "blue" can be recognized in the Frisian language.

ENGLISH GOES UNDERGROUND• During the time of Viking English individually went

underground. Latin language used in worship and philosophy instead of English.

• And class also affected the use of English, especially in the time of William the Defeater and for approximately 300 years after his reign; during this period, only the French language and Latin were used in state affairs and by the nobility, while English remained in use with the lower farmer classes. But in Elizabethan age English completely dominated.

THE BATTLE FOR THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIBLE

• In the early to mid 1300s, English fought to be the language of the Christian Bible through the efforts of theologian John Wycliffe, who opposed the church's use of a Latin scripture because it banned most of the population from reading the bible for themselves.

THIS EARTH, THIS REALM, THIS ENGLAND

• In Queen Elizabeth I's time, English began to expand to even greater depths. Foreign trade brought new words from France, as well as the now popular swearwords "krappe," (crap) and "bugger" from Dutch, in the 16th century.

CONTI.• Now English was becoming Middle English, one of whose

regional types was the language of Chaucer. As Bragg says, Chaucer is as remarkable for the variety of his language as for his characters and stories. In Chaucer's lifetime, John Wycliffe, an Oxford scholar, was organizing the translation of the Bible into English in hundreds of manuscript copies and its distribution by Lollard preachers.

ENGLISH IN AMERICA• Upon landing in North America, settlers encountered

Squanto, a native man who had been captured and brought to England to learn English and become a guide. Squanto made the colonies in America and taught the English to the them, in the world the settlers had new world and new country full of new places and geographical features new animals and plants. They needed words to describe them and occasionally they turned to the native language. After escaping, Squanto returned to his tribe, which happened to live near the place that the English settlers had created their small village.

CONTI.• Almost all those 100 most common words in

English are from Old English. Three ("they", "their" and "them") come from Old Norse. The first French-derived word is the 76th most common: "number". Bragg suggests that commercial contact with the Danes encouraged Old English to lose its inflected word endings and express its meanings through word order - though this is really guesswork.

SPEAKING PROPER• The Age of Reason began, and English scholars of

mathematics and science like Newton started publishing their books in English instead of Latin. Jonathan Swift would attempt to save the English language from continuous change, followed by Samuel Johnson who would write the A Dictionary of the English Language, made up of 43000 words and definitions, written in seven years and published in 1755.

THE LANGUAGE OF EMPIRE• British trade and colonization spread the English

language. In India, scholar William Jones finds some English words already present in Sanskrit. Villains land in Australia, combination London criminal slang and Original words into a new dialect. Jamaicans regain jargon.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAVELLED TO INDIA• English language travelled to India, where it

encountered a lot of other ancient language such as Sanskrit who spoken as a mother tongue. British trade and colonization spread the English language. In India, scholar William Jones finds some English words already present in Sanskrit. Prisoners land in Australia, blending London criminal slang and Native words into a new dialect.

CONTI.• At the end of Britain’s imperial rule in the

mid20th century English remain in India as a major tongue. And now English became a mother tongue and became a power of European. English became a mother tongue for the greatest countries on the earth and one of them is America.

MANY TONGUES CALLED ENGLISH, ONE WORLD LANGUAGE• The globalization of the English language in the 20th

century be thankful most to the United States. Here we look at the majority of American Black street talk, how the Second World War and American movies threatened to "infect" the mother tongue in Britain and how some nations are attempting to stamp in the attack of English out - for example franglais in France and Singlish in Singapore. And now English tongue being spoken by all ranks in the world.

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