English Language

a member of the Teutonic family of languages, which form three groups: dy Low German, (2) Scand in avian, and (3) High German. The English language belongs to the first of these groups. The Teutonic languages themselves form.a subdivision of the European division of that —~ family of lan- Frases called Indo-European. The nglish lagpaeee is closely related to dialects still spoken on the N. shores and lowlands of Germany. The original inhabitants of England were Celts, and but few words of their language survive. At the Norman Conquest in 1066, two languages were in use in England, In the North, the people spoke the language of the Danish settlers, while in the South, the common language was that of the Teuton settlers. The Normans introduced their own tongue, and the monks contributed a Latin element. The founding of the two Universities in the midlands, and the invention of printing, combined to fuse these elements into English.