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Where are the earliest records of the English language and at what time in history?
AlyssaLMiller
This cannot be exactly known. However people have been speaking English for many hundreds of years, Maybe thousands. However there have been many different versions. Most people have heard of Old-English (Shakespere used this e.g. Art Thou Romeo) Now we are in a state of Modern English.
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