A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Danelaw, Jutes, Germanic Languages
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Differentiate between native- and second language speaker (chinese more native speakers- english more foreign speakers) Until 1580 english was very localized and it was a small language --> then colonization started and led to the global diffusion of the english language. English is now one of the world"s major lingua franca (as a first or second or foreign language) and the world"s most widespread language. Through the development of the english language (and through the spread), it came in contact with many different languages- that often left an imprent/effect on the english language (they changed the english language) Before english speaking people arrived in the british isles, there were the celts, who spoke celtic (the first language in the british isles, which is clearly known in. Linguistic, before the celts there were picts; but there are no information about how they spoke) The romans came about 50bc, remained (importance of latin) and left.
