The Indo-European Language Family Various languages around the world are related to each other and speakers can feel the similarity for example Spanish and Italian. One doesn’t need to be an academic to sense or realise these languages are ‘related’ as their similarity and varying degrees of mutual intelligibility cause people to arrive at […]
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This is the 3rd in a series of articles on the history of the English Language. The first article can be found by clicking on here. The second by clicking on here. The history of the English language part 3 In our previous article we discussed the development of the English language from
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This is the second in a series of articles on the history of the English language. The previous article can be read by clicking on this link or just going to this URL, https:/the-origin-of-the-english-language-part-1/ The history of the English language part 2 So in our previous article we had a brief overview of
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To understand the origin of the English language we naturally need to understand the history of those who spoke the earliest forms of “English” or at least proto-English or the ancestral forms of the English language. In fact it is a matter of interesting debate whether the ‘English’ of Beowulf can really be considered the
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What is linguistics? Well one common response might be, “the study of language”. It is possible that from then on the respondent might then continue down this particular path of reasoning and thought and further elaborate that the “study of language” is on how languages work including their grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation (or to sound
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