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                         English is a Germanic language of the Indo-European family.The History of English can be traced back to the arrival 3 Germanic tribes to the British Isles in the 5th century A.D. Angles,Saxons and Jutes reached the island by crossing the North sea from what is present day Denmark and Northern Germany. The Language of the original inhabitants of Britain was Celtic.This was soon displaced .Many of these people were even pushed into Wales and Scotland.One group migrated to the coast of Brittany in France .Their descendants speak the celtic language even today.The Angles were named after their land of origin ,Engle.The anguage of Engles was ‘Englisc’

from which is derived ‘English’.

From the very beginning English was a hybrid language.It was influenced by Latin and Greek during the conversion of England to christianity by St.Augustine and His Followers.

It was greatly influenced by the Danes and after the Norman conquest of Britain,was more transformed by the french speaking Normans.

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