English have stolen English
Montblanc  Updated: 2004-10-21 09:15

The "English" language is not English at all. The Brits had to borrow bits and pieces of their language all over the world to be able to express themselves, as they do now.

As about 60 percent of the English words are out of Germanic or Latin language groups, the European have no reason to be jealous. It is rather the English speaking people who speak unknowingly borrowed French, German and hundreds of other languages to express themselves. Take an aggressive stand and put into English more Chinese words and spread them around with your conversation partners . That is what we are doing in Europa. You can do it too. More Chinese (trojan horses) mixed into English as cheap carrier will be a good means of spreading your language around the world. So ! Feel at home in English and create your special Chinese- English brand

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English language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the United Kingdom and later the United States. Where possible, virtually all students worldwide are required to learn some English, and knowledge of English is virtually a prerequisite for working in many fields and occupations. Higher academic institutions, for example, require a working command of English.
English
Spoken in: United Kingdom, United States and 103 other countries
First language speakers: 402 million
Second language speakers possibly 350 - 1,000 million
Ranking: 3

Geneticclassification: Indo-EuropeanGermanicWestEnglish

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

History

English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, around 449 AD, Vortigern, King of the British Isles, issued an invitation to the "Angle kin" (Angles, led by Hengest and Horsa) to help him against the Picts. In return, the Angles were granted lands in the southeast. Further aid was sought, and in response "came men of Ald Seaxum of Anglum of Iotum" (Saxons, Angles, and Jutes). The Chronicle documents the subsequent influx of "settlers" who eventually established seven kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent, Essex, Sussex, and Wessex.

These Germanic invaders dominated the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants, the languages of whom survived largely in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland. The dialects spoken by these invaders formed what would be called Old English, which was also strongly influenced by yet another Germanic dialect, Old Norse, spoken by Viking invaders who settled mainly in the North-East (see Jorvik). English, England, and East Anglia are derived from words referring to the Angles: Englisc, Angelcynn, and Englaland.

For the 300 years following the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Kings of England spoke only French. A large number of French words were assimilated into Old English, which also lost most of its inflections, the result being Middle English. Around the year 1500, the Great Vowel Shift transformed Middle English to Modern English.

The most famous surviving work from Old and Middle English are Beowulf and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Modern English, the language described by this article, began its rise around the time of William Shakespeare. Some scholars divide early modern English and late Modern English at around 1800, in concert with British conquest of much of the rest of the world, as the influence of native languages affected English enormously.
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Classification and related languages
English belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. The closest undoubted living relatives of English are Scots and Frisian. Frisian is a language spoken by approximately half a million people in the Dutch province of Friesland (Fryslan), in nearby areas of Germany, and on a few islands in the North Sea.

After Scots and Frisian, the next closest relative is the modern Low Saxon language of the eastern Netherlands and northern Germany. Other less closely related living languages include Dutch, Afrikaans, German and the Scandinavian languages. Many French words are also intelligible to an English speaker, as English absorbed a tremendous amount of vocabulary from the Norman language after the Norman conquest and from French in further centuries; as a result, a substantial share of English vocabulary is very close to the French, with some slight spelling differences (word endings, use of old French spellings, etc.) and some occasional lapses in meaning.

Assimilation of other languages in English
Source:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Lists+of+English+words+of+international+origin

Chinese words in English
Source:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Lists+of+English+words+of+international+origin

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