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English language: its origin and significance

As we know, many people in the world are supposed to be English speakers. Because, it is internationally or globally accepted language for the majority. So more and more people are learning or at least aspiring to learn English as the second language, (if not native) or the first language. Let's focus on how it originated and developed over the period of time:                       English Language: its origin and significance English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England. It is named after the ‘Angles’, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of ‘Great Britain’ that later took their name as ‘England’. Both names derive from ‘Anglia’, a peninsula in the ‘Baltic Sea’. The vocabulary of English language has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages and to a greater extent by 'Latin' and 'French'. English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 ye...