English language

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

The approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century:
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

• 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%