LIN256H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Crystal, Canadian English, Social Isolation
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Social factors include age, gender, ethnicity, class, etc. Place can affect the way language is spoken. The celts in britain were protected by the romans. The angles, sax, fresian went to the british isles. Old english (anglo-saxon) evolved from these tribes. In the 700s ce, the vikings had a war, which then split those tribes. 1066: war came again and french became the language that the people would speak. Old english adapted and grew (words such as damage, parliament, council , etc appeared) Old english came after the romans were defeated. Some words that were borrowed from the old norse language, include: freckle, skin, root, leg and foot. Vikings invaded and the british isles got split in half. One side were the danes (old norse) and the other, the anglo-saxons. For three centuries, french was the language of the british royalty, as the french invaded the british and the language normans is french.
