What do we know about the early stages in the development of the English language?

What do we know about the early stages in the development of the English language?

Benjamin Martin stipulates that no language can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a variable and fluctuating state. Every existing language undergoes change with time. To the advantage of human beings, these changes occur gradually. Had this not been the case, people would be faced with the task of relearning their native language almost every twenty years. As a result of these changes occurring moderately and gradually, it change is hardly noticeable. Several English language changes are revealed in written records. A wealth of knowledge about of the history of English is available, because it has been written for approximately one thousand years. Changes in a language are the changes in the grammars of those who speak the language. These are disseminated when new generations of children learn the language by acquiring the grammar that has been altered. Observations of the past one thousand years of the English language, reveal changes in the phonological, morphological, syntactic, as well as semantic and lexical components of the grammar. No level of the English language has remained unchanged during the course of history. If English speakers today were to hear the English spoken three hundred years ago, it would sound like a completely foreign language.

The story of English—from its start in a jumble of West Germanic dialects to its role today as a global language—is both fascinating and complex. The English language belongs to Indo-European family of languages. English was widely used by the Germanic settlers who settled in the Elbe river region around 3000 years ago. This language was introduced in Britain in 5^th century A.D when the Germanic settlers moved there from Northwest Germany.Three Germanic tribes, Angles,Jutes, and Saxons arrived in Britain at 5thcentury A.D. Subsequently, English replaced Celtic as the language of the British Isles.........................................................................................................................................

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