English Language Development
What we now call the English language and reasonably believe that the best known and most popular foreign language in the world has a rich history, which can be divided into four stages. The first stage is called old English and it lasted for 5-10 ages. Ancestors of the English language can be considered as the Anglo-Saxons, who are 5-6 centuries crossed the North Sea and captured Britain. Since that time, Britain was inhabited by the Angles, Saxons and Frisians. Language in which they said belonged to a German group of languages.
Therefore, even in the 9 th century under the English expression meant, these Germanic dialects. And even now, English is something akin to German, Dutch and Flemish. And the most similar to the Anglo-Saxon Irish. At the same time, modern English has dramatically different from him, as for him almost a foreign language. For the first time the history of England has described in his book Anglo-Saxon monk Bede. This work is called, and was released in 731 year. Following this work can be found that originally occupied the Jutes in Britain, who invaded it from Jutland.
Utah settled on the island of Wyee, and took the southern part of the modern Hampshire and Kent. The fact that extended to the south side of the Thames, took the Saxons, who came from Holstein. On the north side of the island settled England, who subsequently gave the name of England. Until the 10 th century the term () is just called Britain.