What is the origin of the English language?

Answer 1

I am doing this in year seven English at the moment so this question should be easy peasy. It has origins in Latin, Celtic, French, Irish, German, Welsh and Scottish. Over the ages the languages have merged. There are also word made from a mixture, slang origins, words originating from names, and words authors have made up like Shakapere's 100 odd new words

Answer 2

English originated from the fusion of languages and dialects, now collectively termed Old English or Anglo-Saxon, which were brought to the eastern coast of Great Britain by Germanic settlers beginning in the 5th century of the modern era. A significant number of English words have Latin roots because Latin in some form was the lingua franca of the Christian Church and of European intellectual life. The language was further influenced by the Old Norse language with Viking invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The Norman conquest of England in the 11th century resulted in heavy borrowings from Norman-French, and vocabulary and spelling conventions began to give the superficial appearance of a close relationship with Romance languages to what had by then become Middle English.