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In the 5th century (approximately 449 A.D.), three German tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and the Jutes, invaded Britain and pushed aside the Romanized Celtic people. The three tribes later coalesced into a single tribe known as the Anglo-Saxons and it is their language that serves as a basis for our modern-day English language. Indeed, the very name "England" is a corruption of the name "Angleland" or "Land of the Angles." Additionally, in the late 8th century, the Vikings invaded England and their German-based Danish language also influenced the present-day language of English when they invaded and settled in northern and eastern England.
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∙ 14y agoEnglish is related to Frisian, High German, Low German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Manx, Cornish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese.
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