English is a proto-Germanic language. Among other languges, it has been influenced by a number of Germanic peoples including the Angles, Saxons, Danes, Franks, Frisians and Jutes.
Historically, English originated from several dialects, now collectively termed Old English, which were brought to the eastern coast of the Great Britain by Germanic setllers, predominantly the Anglo-Saxons, around the 5th century. English was further influenced by the Old Norse language of Viking invaders. The most dominant dialect became the West-Saxon dialect.
The Saxoni (or Saxons), Angli (or Angles), and Vikings. All of these people are from Scandinavia and Northern Germany.
Germanic invaders (or 'barbarians', Teutons) did. even though that might be true that invaders brought the language into English, but the invaders names would be, Germans, Normans, and Jutes. during 870 A.D. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- English is in fact a Germanic language, just because Englishmen are Germanic people: Anglo-Saxons.
The Angles, a Germanic tribe which arrived there in the 5th and 6th century.
The Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes were the major Germanic tribes who settled in England in the fifth century, bringing their Germanic language with them. The language they spoke evolved eventually into Anglo-Saxon, also called Old English.
Four germanic peoples invaded England: The Angles, Saxons and Jutes from northern Germany and the Frisians from northern Holland.
The Saxoni (or Saxons), Angli (or Angles), and Vikings. All of these people are from Scandinavia and Northern Germany.
The English language was introduced to England around the 5th century AD by Germanic tribes, primarily the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. These tribes brought their language to the British Isles during the Anglo-Saxon settlement.
The Saxons. When the Saxons invaded England, the English lost, then the Saxons and the English came together to be the Anglo-Saxons.
English is an Indo-European language.It belongs to the West Germanic group of languages. Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England,
The English language is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that invaded England in the 5th century.
Germanic invaders (or 'barbarians', Teutons) did. even though that might be true that invaders brought the language into English, but the invaders names would be, Germans, Normans, and Jutes. during 870 A.D. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- English is in fact a Germanic language, just because Englishmen are Germanic people: Anglo-Saxons.
England was named from the Old English words "Engla land", "Englaland", & "Angelcynn" meaning "Land of the Angles". Angles were just one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the early part of the middle ages.
Germanic languages were brought to Britain by the Anglo-Saxons, who migrated from continental Europe in the 5th century AD. Their languages eventually evolved into what we now know as Old English.
England takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe that invaded the country in the 5th and 6th Centuries.
The word "England" comes from Old English Englaland, meaning land of the Angles, who were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in present-day England.
From the Angles, a Germanic tribe
The Angles and the Saxons.