Where does English come from?

Answer 1

The English language is Germanic and has its early origins in the tribes of North Western Europe, The Jutes from Jutland peninsular in Denmark, The Angles from Southern Denmark and the Saxons of North Germany before they invaded the Romano -Brythonic speaking Isle of Britannia in 449 AD when it became known as Englisc.

The tribes were so closely linked that up till the mid 11th century Norwegians, Danes, English and Icelanders could still make themselves understood to each other.

Answer 2

Great Britain was at first populated by mostly Celtic people and then the country was invaded by the Anglo Saxons and England was then mostly populated by them. For more information see http://www.postroman.info/saxon1.html. This site details the birth myths of England and the Saxon invasion.

Answer 3

English is a West Germanic language that comes from the mingling of West Germanic, Celtic languages, some Northern Germanic languages, and Norman French.

English has been established out 65% of Latin

Answer 4

It is a mixture of all the countries in Europe that invaded, i..e french, German, Italian(aka Romans),Denmark etc..then later India for instance...the word bungalow is Indian. So it never originated, merely evolved !

Answer 5

The short answer is: England.

Languages have been evolving and borrowing elements from each other for thousands of years. Tribes from what are present-day Germany, Denmark, and Holland started migrating to Britain in the 5th Century, bringing with them some words that survive today in English, although usually not in the same form. Their language evolved into what is called Antlo-Saxon.

Norman French went to England in the 11th Century, and their language mixed with Anglo-Saxon, gradually becoming what we call Middle English. A written sample of Middle English is Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. You can pick out some words that are close enough to Modern English to recognize, although overall it looks pretty strange. Middle English then gradually became what we call Modern English.

So it was in England that the language came to be something we today can recognize and understand; but some bits and pieces came from Germany, some from France. Part of the Norman French can from Latin, which was spoken in Italy. It's a continuing story.

Answer 6

The origin of the American language is English. The dark 'r' and 'l' accent are most likely Irish influences that occurred in the18th century.