EN5314- Timeline of English Language
- Created by: CathTeasdale
- Created on: 09-10-17 11:53
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- English Language through the Ages
- Origin of Language (Pre-English 3000BC-449)
- Proto Indo-European Language (Hypothetical language
- Romance (Latin) + Germanic Language
- Human speech depended on physiological and neurological change
- •Reconstructed through cognates and language patterns
- Split into Eastern and Western
- GRIMM'S LAW- the sound change exhibited in Germanic language
- Celtic languages influence as well as Latin. Continental and insular
- 1000Bc-500 Emergence of Prot-Germanic
- c.45- Become part of Roman Empire c.410- Collapse of Roman Empire
- Proto Indo-European Language (Hypothetical language
- Old English (450-1100)
- c. 700- First surviving evidence of Old English
- 597- Arrival of Roman mission- introduction of Christianity
- c.449- Invasion of Angles, Saxons and Jutes
- Middle English (1100-1500)
- Early Modern English (1500-1700)
- Origin of Language (Pre-English 3000BC-449)
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