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<span style="color:#fff; background:#ff9933>Old East 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:#ff00ff>Old Gutnish dialect</span><br> | ||
<span style=" | <span style="background:#ffff00>Old English</span><br> | ||
<span style="color:#fff; background:#0000ff>Crimean Gothic</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>]] | <span style="color:#fff; #00ff00>Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility</span>]] | ||
Revision as of 16:03, 10 April 2023
English word origin[edit | edit source]
- 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
Old West Norse dialect
Old East Norse dialect
Old Gutnish dialect
Old English
Crimean Gothic
Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility
English vocabulary[edit | edit source]
- 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
| Adjectives | Adverbs | Nouns | Prepositions | Verbs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25% | 50% | 7% | ||