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Trang 2The history of English begins a little after
A.D 600 English is a Germanic Language
of the Indo –European Family
Indo – European
English French Latin Greek Swedish Russian Hindi
Trang 3History of English is divided into three:
•Old English (7th century-1100): is a language rich with morphological diversity and is pronoun essentially as it is spelt.
Old English
Hie dygel lond
Warigeath, wulf –hleothu, windige
naessas,
Frence fen –gelid, there forge –steam
Under naessas genipap, neither gaited
Flod under foldan
Modern English Lonely and waste is the land they inhabit, Wolf –cliffs wild and windy headlands, Ledges of mist Where and mountain torrents
Downward plunge to dark abysses And flow unseen
Beowuef (printed in the modern alphabet)
Trang 4• Middle English(1100-1450/1500): The
sound system & grammar wasn’t so effected but vocabulary was effected much.
Middle English
A Clerk ther was of Oxenford
also,
That un –to logik hadde
longe y –go
Modern English
A Clerk that is an Oxford scholar – who
Looked hollow to his bones, and threadbare, too.
Trang 5• Modern English (1500-now):the change was the elimination of a vowel sound and the Great Vowel Shift
Trang 6(marmalade)
FRANCE
(boutique)
HOLLAND
(yacht)
NORWAY
(ski)
GERMANY
(kindergarten)
ITALY
(piano)
RUSSIA
(bistro)
GREECE
(theory)
SPAIN
( mosquito)
ENGLISH
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