英语的来源（Sources of English）
一、English has its roots in anglo-saxons, a west Germanic dialect, and the English language in use today includes some absorption of other languages and a few new coinage, including many Latin.
英语来源于盎格鲁-萨克逊语，一种西日耳曼方言， 目前在使用的英语中，还包括一部分对其他语言的吸收以及少数新造词，包括很多拉丁语。
二、English was inherited from the changes in the language of the four early Germanic groups who immigrated to England.
早期日耳曼人四支部落移民到英格兰，英语就是从他们的语言中变化继承下来。
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一、英语是国际指定的官方语言，也是世界上使用最广泛的语言，英语包含约49万词，外加技术名词约30万个，是词汇最多的语言。
也是欧盟以及许多国际组织以及英联邦国家的官方语言，拥有世界第三位的母语使用者人数，仅次于汉语和西班牙语母语使用者人数。
二、由古代从丹麦等斯堪的纳维亚半岛以及德国、荷兰及周边移民至不列颠群岛的盎格鲁-撒克逊人，以及朱特部落的白人所说的语言演变而来，并通过英国的殖民活动传播到了世界各地。
三、在19至20世纪，英国以及美国在文化、经济、军事、政治和科学在世界上的领先地位使得英语成为一种国际语言。如今，许多国际场合都使用英语做为沟通媒介。
参考资料来源：百度百科-英语
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca.
英语是一种西日耳曼语言，最早在中世纪早期的英国使用，最终成为全球通用语言。
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.
它是以盎格鲁人命名的，盎格鲁人是迁移到大不列颠地区的日耳曼部落之一，后来以他们的名字命名为英格兰。这两个名字都来源于波罗的海半岛安格利亚。
The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language), and to a greater extent by Latin and French.
该语言与弗里西亚语和下萨克森语密切相关，其词汇受到其他日耳曼语言，特别是挪威语（北日耳曼语言）的显著影响，并且在很大程度上受到拉丁语和法语的影响。
English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century, are collectively called Old English.
英语已经发展了1400多年。英语的最早形式是5世纪盎格鲁撒克逊殖民者带到英国的一组西日耳曼方言，统称为古英语。
Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England; this was a period in which the language was influenced by French.
中世纪英语始于11世纪末，诺曼征服了英格兰，这是一个受法语影响的时期。
Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London, the printing of the King James Bible and the start of the Great Vowel Shift.
早期的现代英语始于15世纪末，随着印刷机的引入伦敦，詹姆斯国王的圣经印刷和大元音移位的开始。
Through the worldwide influence of the British Empire, and later the United States, Modern English has been spreading around the world since the 17th century.
通过大英帝国以及后来的美国的全球影响，现代英语自17世纪以来一直在世界各地传播。
Through all types of printed and electronic media, and spurred by the emergence of the United States as a global superpower, English has become the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions and professional contexts such as science, navigation and law.
通过各种印刷媒体和电子媒体，在美国成为全球超级大国的推动下，英语已成为国际话语的主导语言，成为科学、航海和法律等许多领域和专业背景下的通用语。
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地理分布
由于英国过去在世界各地有许多殖民地的缘故，因此在现代，英语在许多国家与地区，都是通用语言或官方语言之一：
1、英语在下列国家和地区是第一语言：英国、美国、澳大利亚、巴哈马、爱尔兰、巴巴多斯、百慕大、圭亚那、牙买加、新西兰、圣基茨和尼维斯和特立尼达和多巴哥。21世纪世界上把英语作为第一语言（本族语）的人口约有5亿。
2、英语在下列国家和地区中是通用语言，这些国家和地区包括加拿大、多米尼克、圣路西亚和圣文森特和格林纳丁斯、密克罗尼西亚联邦、爱尔兰（连同爱尔兰语）、利比里亚（连同非洲语言）和南非（连同南非荷兰语和其他非洲语言）。
作为第二语言（即不是母语，但为所在国通用语）使用的人口约有10亿。
3、英语是下列国家和地区的官方语言（之一），但不是本地语言和通用语言：斐济、加纳、冈比亚、印度、基里巴斯、莱索托、肯尼亚、纳米比亚、尼日利亚；
马耳他、马绍尔群岛、巴基斯坦、巴布亚新几内亚、菲律宾、所罗门群岛、萨摩亚群岛、塞拉利昂、斯威士兰、博茨瓦纳、坦桑尼亚、赞比亚和津巴布韦。
参考资料来源：百度翻译
参考资料来源：百度百科-英语
本回答被网友采纳Originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialect, it was introduced to Britain when the Germans (mainly from today's northwestern Germany and the Netherlands) invaded. The original Old English consisted of a number of dialects, which also reflected the fact that the origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom on the Isle of England were diverse. One of these dialects, the late West Saxon eventually became the language of unified English.
The English language has undergone tremendous changes in the Middle Ages. Written Old English in 1000 AD is similar in vocabulary and grammar to other ancient Germanic languages (such as Old High German, Ancient Norse), and modern people cannot understand Old English at this time. The English that modern people know is largely similar to the written Middle English in 1400 AD. This shift was caused by two invasions in history.
The first was an invasion from the Northern Germanic branch (also known as the Scandinavian branch), which conquered and made part of the British Isles their colony in AD VIII and IX.
The second was the invasion of the Normans in the eleventh century. The ancient Norman language they spoke eventually developed into a variant of English called Anglo-Norman.
Close interaction with Scandinavia has led to a large number of grammatical simplifications in English, as well as the expansion of the Anglo-Frisian vocabulary (the language is at the heart of English).
However, these changes did not affect the southwestern part of England until the 9th century. It is precisely because of this that the ancient English of the region has gradually developed into a sound language. When written English first came to the fore, it was based on the spoken language of the London region, which is closer to the center of the Scandinavian colony.
Most of the vocabulary related to technology and culture evolved from the ancient Norman language, especially by the church, the court and the ruling class. Later in the Renaissance, like most other developing European languages (such as German, Dutch, Latin, and Ancient Greek), Norman and French were replaced as the main language source.
At this point, English has formed a mixed form in which the vocabulary is borrowed in large quantities and the sources of different vocabularies are different.
起源于盎格鲁-弗里西亚方言，是在日耳曼人（主要来自今天的德国西北地区以及荷兰）入侵时被引入不列颠的。最初的古英语由多种方言组成，这也同时也反映了当时英格兰岛上的盎格鲁-撒克逊王国的起源具有多样性这一事实。这些方言其中的一种，晚期西撒克逊语最终成为了统一英语的语言。
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英语语言在中世纪经历了巨大的变化。公元1000年的书面古英语在词汇和语法上与其他古日耳曼语（如古高地德语、古诺尔斯语）相似，现代人完全不能理解这个时期的古英语。现代人所认识的英语，很大程度上和公元1400年的书面中古英语相似。
与斯堪的那维亚半岛的密切来往引起了英语中大量的语法简化，同时也扩充了盎格鲁-弗里西亚语的词汇量（该语言处于英语核心地位）。然而，直到公元9世纪这些改变都还没有影响到英格兰的西南地区。也正是因为如此，该地区的古英语得以渐渐发展成为一门健全的语言。
文艺复兴时期，取代了诺曼语和法语作为主要语言来源。至此，英语形成了一种词汇大量外借、不同词汇的来源迥异的混合形态。
本回答被网友采纳英语起源于盎格鲁-萨克逊语，一种西日耳曼方言（旧低地语）， 目前在使用的英语中，还包括一部分对其他语言的吸收以及少数新造词，包括很多拉丁语如果说英语如何发展？自然离不开她的殖民扩张，而基本原因也在英国工业革命带来的先进技术的传播以及原属英殖民国经济的发展和散布地域的广泛。English originates from the Anglo-Saxon language, a West Germanic dialects ( old lowland language ), currently in use in the English language, including a portion of the absorbent for other languages as well as a few new words, including many latin. If the English how to develop? Nature cannot leave her colonial expansion, but also bring advanced technology basic reason in the British Industrial Revolution spread of English colonists and the development of economy and the wide geographical distribution本回答被提问者采纳