Hi Class,
This is the last homework assignment of the term. It went by so fast; there are still things I wanted to do!
This is a shorter listening assignment, but it is very interesting and relevant to all of us-the origins of English. (I'm sure you are very busy with finals approaching.) It does go pretty fast, plus it goes backwards in time, which may be a bit confusing the first time you listen to it.
Vocabulary:
Dialect: a form of a language in one area that is different than the way it is spoken in another area
Descendant: Usually refers to people that are related to someone who lived previously (I am my great-grandfather's descendant); in this case it refers to languages that evolved from languages spoken a long time ago.
Beowulf: "Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative lines. It is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature." from Wikipedia
Link: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-did-english-come-from-claire-bowern#watch
Questions:
1. What historical event brought changes to Old English?
What is a romance language?
2. Old English belongs primarily to which language family?
Who brought it to the British Isles?
3. What other invaders brought words and changes to English?
4. What does comparative linguistics look at to determine the roots of a language?
5. Which languages are Latin based?
6. Which languages are Proto-Germanic based?
7. Share three things about the Proto-Indo-European language.
1.What historical event brought changes to Old English?
ReplyDeleteWhat is a romance language?
The modern English shares many similar words with romance languages. Romance languages are the group of related languages that derived from Vulgar Latin, like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. However, the French language influenced a lot on the English language. French words started coming into the English language with the Norman invasion of England in 1066, when the French-speaking Normans conquered England. They added a lot of French and Latin vocabulary in the Old English language. This Old English language we call the language of Beowulf. “Beowulf” was an Old English epic poem that it was written in England sometime between the 8th and the early 11th century.
2. Old English belongs primarily to which language family?
Who brought it to the British Isles?
The Old English language belongs to the Germanic language family, first brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries by some tribes of people like the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. The Germanic dialects that they spoke would become known as Anglo-Saxon dialect.
3. What other invaders brought words and changes to English?
Vikings invaders, who were in the 8th to 11th centuries, added a lot of their words from Old Norse in English and changed it. Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during about the 9th to 13th centuries.
4. What does comparative linguistics look at to determine the roots of a language?
We can see the roots of modern English in different languages like French, Latin, Old Norse, etc., but if we focus on grammatical structure and phonetics, we can see certain core vocabulary. For example, words that have “sk” sounds in Swedish developed an “sh” sound in English.
5. Which languages are Latin based?
Romance languages (French, Spanish, etc.) descended from Latin.
6. Which languages are Proto-Germanic based?
English, Swedish, German, and many others languages descended from the Proto-Germanic language that was around 500 B.C.E.
7. Share three things about the Proto-Indo-European language.
The Proto-Indo-European language, spoken about 6000 years ago on the territory of modern Ukraine and Russia. This language is the reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European family that includes almost all languages historically spoken in Europe and in some parts of Asia. Moreover, this language could descend from an even more ancient language, but it’s very difficult to find some evidence. The amazing fact is that about 3 billion people around the world don’t understand each other despite the fact that their ancestors spoke the same words about 6000 years ago.
Fantastic answers! Thanks for being such an outstanding student this term!
Delete1.What historical event brought changes to Old English?
ReplyDeleteWhat is a romance language?
The modern English shares many similar words with romance languages. Romance languages are the group of related languages that derived from Vulgar Latin, like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. However, the French language influenced a lot on the English language. French words started coming into the English language with the Norman invasion of England in 1066, when the French-speaking Normans conquered England. They added a lot of French and Latin vocabulary in the Old English language. This Old English language we call the language of Beowulf. “Beowulf” was an Old English epic poem that it was written in England sometime between the 8th and the early 11th century.
2. Old English belongs primarily to which language family?
Who brought it to the British Isles?
The Old English language belongs to the Germanic language family, first brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries by some tribes of people like the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. The Germanic dialects that they spoke would become known as Anglo-Saxon dialect.
3. What other invaders brought words and changes to English?
Vikings invaders, who were in the 8th to 11th centuries, added a lot of their words from Old Norse in English and changed it. Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during about the 9th to 13th centuries.
4. What does comparative linguistics look at to determine the roots of a language?
We can see the roots of modern English in different languages like French, Latin, Old Norse, etc., but if we focus on grammatical structure and phonetics, we can see certain core vocabulary. For example, words that have “sk” sounds in Swedish developed an “sh” sound in English.
5. Which languages are Latin based?
Romance languages (French, Spanish, etc.) descended from Latin.
6. Which languages are Proto-Germanic based?
English, Swedish, German, and many others languages descended from the Proto-Germanic language that was around 500 B.C.E.
7. Share three things about the Proto-Indo-European language.
The Proto-Indo-European language, spoken about 6000 years ago on the territory of modern Ukraine and Russia. This language is the reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European family that includes almost all languages historically spoken in Europe and in some parts of Asia. Moreover, this language could descend from an even more ancient language, but it’s very difficult to find some evidence. The amazing fact is that about 3 billion people around the world don’t understand each other despite the fact that their ancestors spoke the same words about 6000 years ago.
1. What historical event brought changes to Old English?
ReplyDeleteWhat is a romance language?
English has evolved through generations of speakers, and have roots from different languages.Modern English now shares many similar word from romance language.For example, French and Spanish.But the journey started with the Norman invasion of England in 1066.When the French-speaking Normans conquered England and became its ruling class, they brought their speech with them,adding a massive amount
of French and Latin vocabulary to the English language previously spoken there.Today, the old English called the language of Beowulf.
2. Old English belongs primarily to which language family?
Who brought it to the British Isles?
Old English belongs to the Germanic language family,first brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
3. What other invaders brought words and changes to English?
Viking invaders in the 8th to 11th centuries added more borrowings
from Old Norse into English .
4. What does comparative linguistics look at to determine the roots of a language?
It may be hard to see the roots of modern English underneath all the words borrowed from French, Latin, Old Norse and other languages.But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure,patterns of sound changes,and certain core vocabulary.
5. Which languages are Latin based?
The Romance languages are from Latin based .
6. Which languages are Proto-Germanic based?
There are English ,Swedish, German and many other languages.
7. Share three things about the Proto-Indo-European language.
First, proto-indo-European was spoken about 6000 years ago in on the Pontic steppe in modern day Ukraine and Russia. Second, it includes nearly all languages historically spoken in Europe. Third, Proto-Indo-European itself descended from an even more ancient language.
1.What historical event brought changes to Old English?
ReplyDeleteWhat is a romance language?
The modern English has several word-similarity with romance languages.
Romance languages belong to a group of related languages that derived from Vulgar Latin, like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. English language was greatly influenced by French. French words started coming into the English language with the invasion of England in 1066, when they conquered England. They added a lot of French and Latin vocabulary in the Old English language. This Old English language we call the language of Beowulf; “Beowulf” being an old English poem written in England sometime between the 8th and the early 11th century. This was the historical changes overtime that brought changes to the old English.
2. Old English belongs primarily to which language family?
Who brought it to the British Isles?
The Old English language belongs primarily to the Germanic language family. Initially, it was brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries by some tribes of people like the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes. The Germanic dialects that they spoke became known as Anglo-Saxon dialect.
3. What other invaders brought words and changes to English?
Vikings invaders, who were in the 8th to 11th centuries, added a lot of their words from Old Norse in English and changed it. Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements between 9th to 13th centuries.
4. What does comparative linguistics look at to determine the roots of a language?
There are roots of Modern English in different languages. For instance, French, Latin, old Norse and so on. However, our focus is on grammatical structure and phonetics, which are the core vocabulary. Words that have “SK” in Swedish language got developed and sound “SH” in English language.
5. Which languages are Latin based?
Romance languages like French and Spanish descended from Latin.
6. Which languages are Proto-Germanic based?
Languages like English, Swedish, German, and some others descended from the Proto-Germanic language around 500 B.C.E.
7. Three things about the proto-indo-European language are:
1. Proto-indo-European was spoken about 6000 years ago in on the Pontic steppe in modern day Ukraine and Russia.
2. Second, it includes nearly all languages historically spoken in Europe.
3. Third, Proto-Indo-European itself descended from an even more ancient language which was the original language spoken by all about 6000 ago.
Fantastic answers! Thanks for being such an outstanding student. You'll be missed at The Language Connection.
Delete1. What historical event brought changes to Old English?
ReplyDeleteWhat is a romance language?
Modern English shares many similar words with Latin Derived Romance Languages, like French and Spanish. Most of those words not primal part of English. They became a part of English is when French-speaking Norman invasion of England in 1066. Norman brought their speech when they conquered England. They added many French and Latin vocabulary to the English, that we called Old English. This is the language of Beowulf.
2. Old English belongs primarily to which language family?
Who brought it to the British Isles?
Old English belongs to the Germanic language family. Angles, Saxons, and Jutes are people who first brought it to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries
3. What other invaders brought words and changes to English?
Viking invaders in the 8th to 11th centuries added more borrowings
from Old Norse.
4. What does comparative linguistics look at to determine the roots of a language?
It hard to see the roots of modern English, because all the words borrowed from different languages, like French, Latin and so on. However, comparative linguistics can help us focus on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary.
5. Which languages are Latin based?
Romance languages, like French and Spanish are Latin based.
6. Which languages are Proto-Germanic based?
English, Swedish, German and other many languages.
7. Share three things about the Proto-Indo-European language.
First, Proto-Indo-European was spoken about 6000 years ago on the Pontic steppe in modern day Ukraine and Russia. Second, it includes nearly all languages historically spoken in Europe. Third, Proto-Indo-European itself descended from an even more ancient language.