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British history |
Pre 5th century there were a tribe of people living in Britain called the celts. Around 455 there was an invasion of Britain. |
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First invasion |
Who invaded? The angles, the Saxon and the Jutes When? Around 455 Who and what was impacted? The cells and their language (celtic) |
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The celts |
Celt language was pushed to the very edges of the country (Scotland, Wales, Cornwall etc). We can still see the influences they had in: Place names (carlisle) Dialectal words (crag) River names (the Thames) |
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Celtic morphemes |
Suffixes: - ing -ton -ham Denote the celtic morphemes for 'The people of' 'Enclosure or village' 'Farm' |
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The Anglo- Saxons |
The Angles and Saxons became dominant in England replacing the Celtic with their own language ( which was called old english). Old english had a lexicon of around 25000 words and was very much written like it was meant to be read aloud. |
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Divisions |
The country was divided in four main sections Mercian Northumberian Kentish West Saxon All of which spoke varieties of old english. |
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Examples of old english |
Nouns- Son, daughter, youth, field, friend, home and ground. Verb- drink, come, go, sing, like and love. Preposition- in, on, into, by and from. |
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The vikings |
In the 9th century the Danish language spread around England leading to a simplified grammatical system in Old English. |
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The second invasion |
Who invaded? The vikings When? Around the start of the 9th century (but recurring for around 200 years) Who was impacted? Original English people |
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Old norse |
The vikings brought with them old noise, with words that speeded into English like: Score, sky, skive, anger, ball, freckle, neck, root, skull and window. |
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Old english |
In the 9th century the Danish language spread around the country eating to a simplified grammatical system in Old English. Also around this time, boarders came into place, preventing travel. Trade was permitted. |
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Borrowing words |
This lead to borrowing and trading words between English, Danish and old english. |
