ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.

Detailed explanation-2: -Old English language, also called Anglo-Saxon, language spoken and written in England before 1100; it is the ancestor of Middle English and Modern English. Scholars place Old English in the Anglo-Frisian group of West Germanic languages.

Detailed explanation-3: -What language did the Anglo-Saxons speak? The Anglo-Saxons spoke the language we now know as Old English, an ancestor of modern-day English. Its closest cousins were other Germanic languages such as Old Friesian, Old Norse and Old High German.

Detailed explanation-4: -When the Anglo-Saxon tribes from northern Europe invaded and colonized the British Isles starting in the 5th century they brought with them their languages and cultures. This arrival created the first English language, Old English, which remained in use until the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century.

Detailed explanation-5: -Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples-Angles, Saxons, and Jutes-who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English today is a constantly changing language that has been influenced by a plethora of different cultures and languages, such as Latin, French, Dutch, and Afrikaans.