language is considered to have originated in about AD 700 from the various Germanic dialects spoken in the Netherlands region‚ mostly of (Low) Frankian origin. A process of standardization started in the Middle Ages. Dutch is part of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is‚ therefore‚ closely related to English‚ German and the Scandinavian languages. Dutch is spoken as a mother tongue by about 23 million people in the Netherlands‚ parts of Belgium and in the former Dutch colonies
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History of the English language From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia (Redirected from History of English Language) Jump to: navigation‚ search English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands. Initially‚ Old English was a diverse group of dialects‚ reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. One of these dialects‚ Late
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BA (Hons) Tourism Marketing Year 3 1.0 AN INTRODUCTION According to the United Nations definition of indigenous people‚ they are “descendants of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived” (United Nations‚ 2011a). It is estimated that there are about 370 million indigenous people around the globe in over 70 different countries. They keep their own political‚ social‚ economic and cultural qualities and also their
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There are 7 billion people in the world. 600 million live in northern America. 125 million live in Mexico with 1.5 million living near the Cancun peninsula‚ and only around 2‚000 of them are Itzan. The Itzan people are in grave danger of extinction‚ with only 1‚983 natives left. Did you know that only 8 people in this whole world‚ speak itzan fluently? But who are the Itza people? The Itzan are one of the few surviving tribes of the Mayan people but they are also shrouded in mystery. No one
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Reforms in Old and Middle English The English language is a Germanic based language that resides in the Indo-European family of languages. English is spoken all over the world and there are about four hundred and seventy million people who speak it. English is also the official language of many nations. It is spoken on every major continent. This language can be considered the auxiliary language of the world; it is actually becoming a global language. English has also replaced
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language will definitely help in explaining the way English is the way it is to the students in an EFL class. Knowing for example that English derives from the Germanic group of languages and that it had a strong Latin influence will enable the teacher to limit the stress on vocabulary and phonology when teaching students who speak a Germanic or Latin based language. It will be the opposite when teaching students whose native language does not even adopt the Roman alphabet‚ like the Chinese‚ Japanese
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many were of mixed race . Free people of color was especially a term used in New Orleans and the former Louisiana Territory‚ where a substantial third class of primarily mixed-race‚ free people developed. There were also free people of color in Caribbean and Latin American slave societies. These colonial societies classified mixed-race people in a variety of ways‚ generally related to appearance and to the proportion of African ancestry. History Free people of color‚ or gens de couleur libre
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~ History of English ~ Summer term 2010/11 Wednesdays 11.00-12.30 Fridays 11.00-12.30 ~ Introduction ~ - Who speaks English? - 1) inner circle (320-380 million speakers; English as L1) - 2) outer circle (150-300 million speakers; English as L2) - 3) expanding circle (100-1000 million speakers; English as lingua franca = ELF) - possible language shifts: from ELF to L2 - from L2 to L1 - Why is English a world language? - historical
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communicating thought: it’s a particular system used by a nation. English is the official language of Britain‚ the US‚ Australia and most other parts of the Commonwealth as well as certain other countries – relating to England – the English‚ the people of England. We don’t ask ourselves where languages come from because they just seem to be there: French in France‚ English in England‚ Chinese in China‚ German in Germany and so on. Yet if we go back only a few thousand years‚ none of these languages
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This is a sociological question and before trying to answer it‚ let us see what is meant by culture. Culture is simply how a people live. It involves many things‚ -namely their dress‚ food‚ art and literature‚ their hopes and fears. These things are moulded by the impact of time‚ geography and history of the place. Even when given the same natural conditions people do not develop the same culture. A conspicuous example is the cultures about the Mediterranean Sea. But the accidents of history are
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