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The History of English Language

By Carolina Batista, number 155712

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Lecturer: Zsófia Gombár

History and Theory of Translation (2021/2022)

Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras

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Where it all started

  • Invasion of Britain during the 5th century

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  • Germanic tribes: the Jutes, Saxons and Angles

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  • Engla-land - “the land of the Angles”

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Old English (5th to 11th century)

  • Prehistoric or Primitive (5th to 7th century)

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  • Early old English (7th to 10th century)

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  • Late old English (10th to 11th century)

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Early Middle English

  • Simplified Old English

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  • Vocabulary mostly Anglo-Saxon

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Late Middle English

  • French borrowing

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  • Pronounced differently from modern English

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  • No central standard

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Conclusion

  • Modern English defined as the English Language – 1450 o5 1500

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  • Distinctions between the Early Modern period (1450-1800) and Late Modern English (1800 to the present)

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  • Present-Day English – most recent evolution

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Sources

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