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which have survived.
o About 450 loans from Latin
o About 2000 from the Viking invasions.
The Middle-English vocabulary became a heterogeneous hybrid of Germanic and Romanic
languages. 100 000 to 125 000 words.
o About 10 000 loans from Norman French, 75% are still in use
o Continuing Latin influence
Early Modern English. 200 000 – 250 000 words
o English becomes a pluricentric language.
o Polyglot. Cosmopolitan language
Modern English. 500 000 words
o At present at least 1 billion lexical units
2. Core and periphery.
Origin of the 10,000 most frequent words:
o Old English 31.8 %
o French 45 %
o Latin 16.7 %
o Other Germanic languages 4.2 %
o Other languages 2.3 %
The core vocabulary is predominantly Germanic (the, I, you, etc.) Only 4 of the top-ranked one hundred
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