The English language is believed to have evolved a lot over time. It’s history began with the migration of the Jutes, Angles and Saxons from German and Denmark to Britain in the 5th and 6th century and the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century [1]. English as it’s known today came to be exported to other parts of the world through British colonization [2]. It’s now the dominant language in Britain and Ireland, United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada [2] English has become one of the most common languages in the world spoken by around 1.5 billion people [3]. It’s an official language of many countries and despite it’s widespread use, English is not without it’s challenges since it has borrowed words from so many languages hence it can be difficult to know how to spell and pronounce certain words [3]. Due to many different dialects of English, it can be hard to understand someone from a different region.
Overall English is a rich and flexible language that has adapted to the needs of a rapidly changing world [3]. English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related most of the languages spoken in Europe and Western Asia from Iceland to India [4]. The flexibility of English’s function has grown over last five centuries as a consequence of the loss of inflections [5]. In English, nouns and verbs are used more frequently than other parts of speech [5].
References:
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English
4. https://www.britannica.com/topic/English-language
5.https://www.oxfordinternationalenglish.com/a-brief-history-of-the-english-language/
