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(Created page with "== English word origin == * from the Angles, a Germanic peoples who migrated to the British Islands in the 400s-600s AD. ** part of the Anglo-Saxon invasions * English is one of the "Anglo-Frisian" languages thumb|Old norse, ca 900 == English vocabulary == * English contains 170,000 to 220,000 words (when obsolete words are counted) ** when technical terms, mostly from Latin and Greek, are counted, there are about 1 million words {| cla...") |
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** part of the Anglo-Saxon invasions | ** part of the Anglo-Saxon invasions | ||
* English is one of the "Anglo-Frisian" languages | * English is one of the "Anglo-Frisian" languages | ||
[[ | [[Image:Old norse, ca 900.svg|right|250px|thumb| | ||
The approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century:<br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#ff0000>Old West Norse dialect</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#ff9933>Old East Norse dialect</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#ff00ff>Old Gutnish dialect</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#ffff00>Old English</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#0000ff>Crimean Gothic</span><br> | |||
<span style="color:#fff; #00ff00>Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility</span>]] | |||
== English vocabulary == | == English vocabulary == | ||