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HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1 BIRTH OF A LANGUAGE

                     URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UqzBA1LNbE&feature=youtu.be


                      Events                      When                  Details

                                                  2,000 years ago       The English language was totally
                                                                        different from now.

                      Spreading of English                              The English language had

                      language                                          established its first base camp
                                                  1500 years ago        Modern English Language and

                                                                        Frisian both languages come from
                                                                        the same language family, the

                                                                        Germanic family of languages.

                      Roman Invasion              More than 500
                                                  years before

                      Germanic Invaders                                 Germanic invaders laid siege and

                                                                        slaughtered the Celts who had
                                                                        taken refuge in Pevensey Castle.

                      Germanic Displacement       5th century


                                                                        .
                      The monk mission                                  The monk and prior Augustine led

                                                                        a mission from Rome to Kent.

                                                  By the end of the     Dover and London main
                                                  6th century           Germanic tribes occupied half of

                                                                        mainland Britain.

                                                                             Christians built churches
                                                                               and monasteries were the

                                                                               Celtics established.












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