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EVIDENCE FOR ELEMENT 1
UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE AMBATO
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y DE LA EDUCACIÓN
CARRERA DE IDIOMAS
HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE CULTURE
NAME: Viviana Manobanda
DATE: April 10, 2016
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COURSE: 7 Semester
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1 Birth of a Language
Table of Events
Events When Details
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Invasion of Germanic tribes 5 century A Germanic tribe part of
the family that also
contained Jutes, Angles,
and Saxons made sail to
look for a better life and
took English language
with them.
Germanic tribes occupied By the end of the 6th These Germanic tribes
half of mainland Britain. century occupied half of mainland
Britain. They had divided
into a number of
kingdoms. Kent, Sussex,
Essex, and Wessex.
The monk and prior In 597 Around the same time,
Augustine led a mission Irish monks of the Celtic
from Rome to Kent. church were establishing a
presence in the north.
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Christians built churches 7 century Christians brought faith,
and monasteries. stone, and the international
language of the Christian
religion, Latin.
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The magnificent 8 century Old English was written
Lindisfarne Gospels were down using the Latin
created alphabet, while retaining
some of
the old runes as letters.
