English language

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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

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


Adjectives	Adverbs	Nouns	Prepositions	Verbs
25%		50%		7%

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