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History of English
01/11/08 - Mandi
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10th Grade
01/09/2008

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Where does English begin?
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Aryan Tribes
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Where did the Aryans migrate?
Definition
numerous parts of Europe and the Middle East
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What is the Aryan's language called?
Definition
Aryan
Term
How did the Aryan language form?
Definition
by merging with languages of the many different cultures that they migrated to.
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When the Indian language merged with Aryan language, what language was formed?
Definition
Sanskrit
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In England, what was the language that resulted from the Aryan language mixing?
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Celtic
Term
Hundred of languages, today, have a common bond because of what?
Definition
Aryan ancestor
Term
The family of languages that all have the Aryan ancestory are in what family of languages?
Definition
Indo-European
Term
What was the dominant language from the 600s until the Romans invaded?
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Celtic
Term
The people that spoke the Celtic language established a city on what river and what was the name of the city?
Definition
Thames River; Londinium
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What language became dominant after Celtic?
Definition
Latin
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While Latin was the dominant language, where was Celtic still spoken?
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Wales, parts of Northern England, Scotland, and Ireland
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When did the use of Latin begin?
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When the Roman Empire fell; 400s A.D.
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Latin still remained the language of what?
Definition
The Catholic Church
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When was Celtic once again dominant?
Definition
When Celts returned to central and southern England
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Who invaded England in the 400s and what language did they bring?
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Anglo-Saxons; Old English
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When did the British Middle Ages begin?
Definition
1066 when the Duke of Normandy, William, won the battle of Hastings
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What three languages were spoken in England from 1066-1500? [and where..]
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French: Language of the Court; Middle English: Language of commoners; Latin: Language of the Church
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When did the Middle ages end?
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1500 with the end of War of the Roses
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The English Renaissance began under who? What began at this time?
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Henry VIII; Modern English
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When was old english spoken?
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400-1066
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Example of Old English
Definition
"se cyning meteth thone biscop"
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Example of Middle English
Definition
"The tendre croppes and the yonge sonne hath in the ram his halve cours yronne"
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