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There are about 5000 languages spoken in the world today (a third of them in Africa), but scholars group them together into relatively few families - probably less than twenty
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English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers and Roman auxiliary troops
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English is a Germanic Language of the Indo-European Family. It is the second most spoken language in the world. It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use i
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The Indo-European Family of Languages
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Spanish Language & History Flag of Spain The history of the Spanish language and the origin of the dialects of Spain begin with the linguistic evolution of Vulgar Latin. Castilian & Andalusian dialects emerged in the Iberian peninsula (Hispania) during th
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The Romance languages are a group of closely related vernaculars descended from the LATIN LANGUAGE, a member of the Italic branch of INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. The designation Romance is derived from the Latin phrase romanica loqui, "to speak in Roman fashi
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The history of the Greek Language begins, as far as the surviving texts are concerned, with the Mycenaean civilization at least as early as the thirteenth century BCE. T
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Isn't Welsh just a dialect of English? No. It is a language with an older pedigree, and a distinct one.
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Language Timeline The English language is a vast flea market of words, handed down, borrowed or created over more than 2000 years.
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Australia Some authorities believe language emerged at this time, in parallel with a surge in the creation of cultural artifacts.
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What are the origins of the English Language? The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, and Modern English
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The Lord's Prayer in Old English Matthew 6:9-1
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Nouns Old English nouns had grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter)
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