What is the development of English language?

Answer 1

England owes it's language to France. England was an island surrounded on all sides by water, with so many inlets, islets, lagoons and shores. So it was only natural that the people there in the distant past developed as great canoers and fishermen. Where will they sell all this fish which quite surely they themselves can not consume? France was the nearest landmass and from Dover to Calais it was only a few kilometres of brave canoeing. Unlike the secluded island, France was a vast open landmass with open borders and long civilization- highways. It was not only the price of their trade wares, but the richness of a classic language also, that the fishermen islanders brought back. Many Frenchmen still comment that "English is nothing but our French, wrongly spelt and wrongly pronounced."

The seafaring skills of the Englisch helped in propagating their language and promoting colonisation. Thus this language, unlike any other, began to be developed not from a single nation, but from nations around the world. As it was a living language unlike the dead Sanscrit, and as it had no reluctance towards assimilating and borrowing words from other languages, it began to grow fast and splendid. English language was the legacy left to various nations by those island seafarers. Where they stayed the longest, their language and the language skills of the people there developed fast and better. They had to pack up from America very early. They left India early. They left Africa only recently. In India, in many states like the North Eastern border states, English is now not a foreign language but the mother tongue of the people there. English is in the same position in quite a number of places, states and nations. It is still growing and developing.

Answer 2

The English language developed from a West Germanic dialect brought to Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century. Over time, English evolved through influences from Latin, Norse, and French, leading to the Middle English period in the 11th to 15th centuries. Modern English began to take shape with the standardization of spelling and grammar in the 16th century.