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English Language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south- east Scotland   under the influence  of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the extensive influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, via the British Empire, and of the United States since the mid-20th century, it has been widely dispersed around the world, becoming the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions. It is widely learned as a second language and used as an official language of the European Union and many Commonwealth countries, as well as in many world organisations. It is the third most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. It is the most widely spoken language across the world.

Historically, English originated from the fusion of languages and dialects, now collectively termed Old English, which were brought to the eastern coast of  Great Britain  by Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) settlers by the 5th century – with the  word English  being derived from the name of the Angles, and ultimately from their ancestral region of Angeln (in what is now Schleswig-Holstein). A significant number of  English words  are constructed based on roots from Latin, because Latin in some form was the lingua franca of the Christian Church and of European intellectual life. The language was further influenced by the Old Norse language due to Viking invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The Norman conquest of England in the 11th century gave rise to heavy borrowings from Norman-French, and vocabulary and spelling conventions began to give the superficial appearance of a close relationship with  Romance languages  to what had now become  Middle English <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">. The Great Vowel Shift that began in the  <span class="bg463t30dam" id="bg463t30dam_2" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;outline:0px;list-style:none;float:none;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-top-color:transparent;border-right-color:transparent;border-left-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,153,0);cursor:pointer;line-height:normal;display:inline!important;">south of England <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;"> in the 15th century is one of the historical events that mark the emergence of Modern English from Middle English.

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