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History
of Language Links
The origins
of our language come in three broad stages.
Firstly there
is prehistory
For this
period look at:
The Origins of Language
Secondly there
is history since Roman times
For this
period look at:
The Invasions map
The Roman invasion
Angles, Jutes, Frisians and Saxons
Scandinavian Invaders
The Normans
Placenames
A language Timeline
Thirdly there
are more recent times
For this
period look at:
A language Timeline
Chaucer and his time
Caxton and his time
Shakespeare and his time
Samuel Johnson and his dictionary
Loan words from other countries
Change in the Bible
Finally there
is the Twentieth Century
For this
period look at:
Changes since 1900
Boy's Own Paper 1922
New words since 1986
The process of change
Music reviews
New words in 2003
Words introduced by the Iraq War 2003/4
Is the Hyphen making a dash for extinction?
Future trends
Bollywood English
Buzzwords of the Century
Endangered Languages
You could
also look at :
Development of the Western Alphabet
Signs and Symbols
Spelling Problems and Issues
Words for all Seasons
A collection
of Etymologies
The Lord's Prayer and Gospels as example of language change
English - What a Language!
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