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(most commonly spoken language in…)
‘the united kingdom’
‘the united states’
‘canada’
‘australia’
‘ireland’
‘new zealand’
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(“english” is a ‘west germanic language’ that was first spoken in ‘early medieval england’ and is now a global ‘lingua franca’)
(named after the ‘angles’, one of the ‘germanic tribes’ that migrated to ‘england’, it ultimately derives its name from the ‘anglia’ (aka ‘angeln’) peninsula in the ‘baltic sea’)
(it is closely related to the ‘frisian languages’, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other ‘germanic languages’, particularly ‘norse’ (a ‘north germanic language’), as well as by ‘latin’ and ‘romance’ languages, especially ‘french’)
(‘english’ has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years)
(the earliest forms of ‘english’, a set of ‘anglo-frisian’ dialects brought to ‘great britain’ by ‘anglo-saxon’ settlers in the 5th century, are called ‘old english’)
(‘middle english’ began in the late 11th century with the ‘norman conquest of england’, and was a period in which the language was influenced by ‘french’))
(‘early modern english’ began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the ‘printing press’ to ‘london’ and the ‘king james bible’, and the start of the ‘great vowel shift’)
(through the worldwide influence of the ‘british empire’, ‘modern english’ spread around the world from the 17th to mid-20th centuries)
(through all types of ‘printed’ and ‘electronic media’, as well as the emergence of the ‘united states’ as a ‘global superpower’, ‘english’ has become the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions and in professional contexts such as ‘science’, ‘navigation’, and ‘law’)
(‘english’ is the ‘3rd most widespread native language in the world’ (after ‘standard chinese’ and ‘spanish’))
(it is the ‘most widely learned second language’ and is either the ‘official language’ or ‘one of the official languages’ in almost ’60 sovereign states’)
(there are more people who have learned it as a ‘second language’ than there are ‘native speakers’)
(‘english’ is the most commonly spoken language in the ‘united kingdom’, the ‘united states’, ‘canada’, ‘australia’, ‘ireland’, and ‘new zealand’, and it is widely spoken in some areas of the ‘caribbean’, ‘africa’, and ‘south asia’)
(it is co-official language of the ‘united nations’, of the ‘european union’ and of many other world and regional international organizations)
(it is the most widely spoken ‘germanic language’, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this ‘indo-european’ branch)
(‘english’ has a vast vocabulary, and counting exactly how many words it has is ‘impossible’)
“oh, is it?”
(‘modern english grammar’ is the result of a gradual change from a typical ‘indo-european’ dependent marking pattern with a rich ‘inflectional morphology’ and relatively free ‘word order’, to a mostly ‘analytic pattern’ with ‘little inflection’, a ‘fairly fixed ‘SVO word order”, and a ‘complex syntax’)
(‘modern english’ relies more on ‘auxiliary verbs’ and ‘word order’ for the expression of complex ‘tenses’, ‘aspect’, and ‘mood’, as well as ‘passive constructions’, ‘interrogatives’, and some ‘negation’)
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(despite noticeable variation among the ‘accents’ and ‘dialects’ of ‘english’ used in different ‘countries’ and ‘regions’ – in terms of ‘phonetics’ and ‘phonology’, and sometimes also ‘vocabulary’, ‘grammar’, and ‘spelling’ – ‘english-speakers’ from around the world are able to communicate with one another with relative ease)
“english” is a west germanic language
english is the most widely used language in the world
(1.8 billion users)
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*PUNCTUATION* –>
‘exclamation mark’
(‘note of admiration’)
(‘latin’ –> sense of wonder)
(introduced to ‘printing presses’ in the ‘mid-1500s’)
during renaissance, quotations were indicated with different typeface
(italic vs. roman)
(‘quotation marks’ first set into ‘metal type’ in the ‘mid-1500s’)
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*ACCENTS* –>
“scouse”
(merseyside)
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👈👈👈☜*“THE ANGLIC LANGUAGES”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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