English language
English word origin
Angles / Anglo-Saxon
- 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
Language origins of Modern English
| Germanic | Old French | Latin | Greek | Other | Proper Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26% | 29% | 29% | 6% | 6% | 4% |
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 | Conjunctions | Determiners | Nouns | Prepositions | Pronouns | Verbs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 50% | 7% | ||
| Adjectives | Adverbs | Conjunctions | Determiners | Nouns | Prepositions | Pronouns | Verbs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 50% | 7% | ||