who created the english language and when?

Answer 1

The English language was created by the inhabitants of the British Isles.

English began as a mixture of Celtic, Gaelic, old German and Norman French. It has always been a language of change, new words coming in to use and old ones falling out of fashion. The introduction of the printing press in the 15th century helped to standardize much spelling and usage. More words came into the language from America, India, Africa and Asia as the British expanded their colonial empire.

The language in its present form has been in the process of creation for about a thousand years, but today's users of the language would be unlikely to understand much that was written before the 13th century.

English has become the international language of trade and industry and continues to change.The most recent arrivals have been new words and usage created by the Information Technology industry.

Answer 2

English is mutt. It the combination of German as spoken by the Angles and Saxons plus Norman French. English is not a fixed language - it changes continuously but modern speakers should be able to comprehend most of written English back to the time of Shakespear, around 1616. English could not have existed prior to 1066 which is the year when the Normans invaded England.

Answer 3

Celts spoke Gaelic. Duh.

Let's take this ALLLLLLLLL the way back.

Once upon a time, Europe was inhabited by the Neolithic peoples--Basques and Iberians come to mind. Then this rather small band of people called the Indo-Europeans got it in their mind to spread out from their lands in and around the Caucasus mountains.

The Neolithic peoples were, as far as anyone can research, a Goddess-worshipping people. The Indo-Europeans were polytheistic and patriarchal. Their primary god was a God of War. Women were severely restricted in their lives, unlike the Goddess people who were more egalitarian.

The Indo-Europeans made it as far east as India, and into Iran and Europe, and for some reason the Neolithic peoples vanished--perhapsed massacred, perhapse enslaved or driven off to less inhabitalble lands and dying off. The Basques of France and Spain, and the Lapps of Lappland are exceptions.

The Celts, for some reason, perhapse through assimilation, gave mroe women rights and acknowledged the Goddesses along with the Gods. In the Middle-East, the destruction of the Neolithics by the Hebrews, a patriarchal Indo-European group, is well documented in the Old Testament (Did anyone know that the "prostitutes" weren't prostitutes at all, but were revered as sacred vessels of the Goddess? And that ishtar was, in fact, a woman?).

The Indo-Europeans moved into the Northern regions of Europe, becoming the familiar Vikings of the far north and the Germanic peoples (the Vandals, Goths, Anglos, Saxons) of the more southerly regions.

The Celtic peoples (Picts, Manx, Gauls etc) inhabited what is now England and France. When the Vikings began to invade, the Celts were weak and begged for help from the Roamn empire, but the Romans were fighting off their own collapse and so sent only one brigade. Desperate, the Celts invited the Germanics to help protect them, but instead the Germanics took over and drove the Celts to the isles and wetlands of England, Ireland, and Scotland, where they are still to this day.

The language of the Vikings was very similar to teh language of the Germanics, and eventually the Vikings who invaded England settled amongst their Germanic cousins. This language was Old English. At this time, the Germanics began writing, but in the North, the Vikings burned books, and writings, believing they were magical in a very bad way. Thus we have the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles from the south, and Beowulf, but not much else.

The Vikings were pushing their luck, however, and during the reign of Aelfred, they were commanded either to a) Convert to Christianity and lay down their swords, or b) die.

Those that escaped went to Normandy (North Man Land) across the channel, and intermingled with the remnants of the Romans and Gauls, and hundreds of years later invaded and introduced Feudalism. These Normans, as they were called, spoke French (the vestige of the Roman Empire, the Gauls having been wiped out centuries before), but DID NOT impose their language on the people. Instead, the Normans started learning English, and the English began to learn French.

Thus, we often have to words for the same thing--Teacher, Educator, Learning, Education, as well as a plethora of introduced French words, like conisseur, fiancee, faux pas, faux, chef, garage, wine . . . the list goes on and on.

And, contrary to popular belif (and High School classes), there really is no proper way to speak English. A lot of the rules we have learned were actually made up in the 1700's! There never was such a word as "whom", and using "who" for every instance was proper. And "ain't" is acceptable, and double-negatives--two negatives (I don't got no money) makes a positive--that is applicable only to math, and such verbage is comon in almost any other language.

Bored yet?

Answer 4

this isn't a wager: English is a blend of German and French. The Anglo/Saxons arrived from Germany to what's now large Britain and presented their language. It mixed with the Gaelic that the natives spoke. ultimately, the country(ies) were invaded by ability of Norman conquerers who presented French with them. that's the reason center English sounds so very like German (check out Beowulf) and such distinctive (as many as 2/3) of English words have French starting place.

Answer 5

It's an offset of German created in the English Isles by the celics sometime during the Hloy Romen Empire.

Answer 6

Mr. English

Answer 7

god created it on the request of the queen of england to make the bible easier to understand. Saint Peter was actually given the divine instruction, but words like fcuk, hard drive, global warming, suicide bombers and so on were hard to understand in his time.