English language

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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 norse, ca 900

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%
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