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    1-Take notes. Identify 5 points you think are specially important.

    1. The two languages that took center stage in the development of linguistic
    usage in Britain in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms is English and Latin.
    2. English is the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.
    3. Latin as a dominant written language.
    4. The earliest evidence for the English language is short texts, often just single
    words, nouns, or names that were written using runes…
    5. The Runic alphabet was developed on the continent and come over to Anglo-
    Saxon.

    2-Formulate one idea that you think are supported by the points you
    identify.
    Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that is listed in much of what is
    now England and southern Scotland between 425 and 1125 approximately. It was a
    flexive language with great freedom in its syntax, unlike real English. The writings that
    have come to this day represent above all the literary record of the Anglo-Saxon.

    3-Share with your partners and your teacher.

    4-Write and easy about history of English language and literature.

    English is a western Germanic language originating from Anglo-African dialects brought


    to Britain by German invaders from various parts of what is now northwestern
    Germany, southern Denmark and the northern Netherlands.

    Initially, Ancient English was a group of several dialects, reflecting the varied origin of
    the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. One of these dialects, the late Western Saxon,
    at one point came to dominate. The original ancient English language was then
    influenced by two invasive waves: the first was speakers of the Scandinavian branch of
    the Germanic languages, which conquered and colonized parts of Britain, the second
    was from the Normans in the eleventh century, who spoke ancient Norman and
    developed a variety of English called agglomerate. These two invasions caused the
    Englishman to mix to some extent.

    Cohabitation with the Scandinavians, who would have spoken dialects of the old
    Nordic, resulted in significant grammatical simplification and lexical enrichment of the
    Anglo-African nucleus of English; the subsequent Norman occupation led to a graft of a
    layer of more elaborate words from romance languages (derived from Latin). This
    Norman influence on English penetrated through the courts and the government. With
    the advent of the Renaissance, Latin and classical Greek supplanted Norman French as
    the main source of new words.

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