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English – a global language Aleksander 10B
This essay explores British and English history and its influence to the world. English is spoken all around the world. We can even say that it is a international language. It begun when Great Britain started founding colonies . Empire growed from the 17’th century up to 1920’s. It was said that the sun never sets on British empire. It had expanded all over the world. In the colonies, English started to change , it had spread all around the world, just like the empire. It was leading country in the world for a very long time. It had strong economy and the strongest navy that any one had ever seen , so it was till the world wars.
The British Isles , because of their good geographical position have been conqured only twice. And both occasions had a great influence on the language. First came Latin with the conquest of Roman Empire. Latin gave some terms to English and now it is a scientific language. Romans stayed for half a century, when they left , different Germanic tribes came and estabilished new kingdoms. They brought a new language with them . The Old English is developed from their Germanic dialects. After that, came Christians and brought new words like martyr, bishop etc. The second and last conquest was in 1066, when the Duke of Normandie, also known as William the Conqurer, invaded England to claim his right to the throne. He was the one who estabilished the House of Normandy. He brought Old French to England making it the official language. It gave many new terms to English, like pig and pork etc. After the hundred years ’ war, English took over as the official language.
Also many writers and scientist influenced the language a lot. More than 2000 were invented by Shakespeare . He gave us words like eyeball, lachluster, alligator etc. In addition , the language was greatly influenced by science . Because common people couldn’t understand the Latin terms, Isac Newton and others physisists started to use English. Words like acid, electricity, gravity etc. were invented by them. Scientist gave us words like penis and vagina .
In the 16’th century the British empire started to expand. First to the New World, America, the natives gave new words like canoe , cannibal etc. Also they went to places like India, Africa and Austlia. From India they got words like yoga etc. In Africa they picked up zombie, voodoo . In Australia – nugget, boomerang, walk about. In the colonies the official language was English. And because of the large number of speakers and limited contact with British Isles, language started to change there . Soon there came new types of English like American-English, Chinglish, Hindi -English etc. Now there are only 1.5 billion native speakers of 7 billion humans and youngsters use English terms in their own languages in everyday speech .
Today , English has strong influence to the world, there are many English speaking contries, people use it as international economy language. And we hear it every day in radio or from TV. It also influences our language, because young people take over some terms that they think are cool. So I think that we can call it a global language, because it really is everywhere .