Words : Native and Borrowed

Old English and before

spelling

Meaning

vocabulary

Usage

grammar

Pronunciation

Aspects of language that change through time

The origin of words.

How and where the first words originated has always puzzled linguistics and philosophers

Indo- European

Eastern - Split into two :-The Balto-Slavic ( inludes Bulgarian, Slovenian, Serbo, Croatinan, Polish,

Czech and Russian).

-The indo-Iranian: ( includes modern

Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Romany)

Western- Hellenic,

Italic, Celtic, Germanic.

Indo European language first split into

Indo-European

Western Eastern

HittiteCeltic Germanic Italic Hellenic Tocharian

NorthWestEast

Balto Slavic

Indo Aranian

Relationship of Indo-European Languages

Anglo-Saxon Britain

Old English Dialect areas

Christian Conversion re-introduced 170 latin words and Created monastic environment s for learning and scholarships

-Translations from Latin to English

-The anglo-Saxon Chronicles

-Danes provided words beginning with sc/sk-.

London

London figures in the development of the standard English