The origin and growth of English

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English was not that original language of England. It was first brought to England in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D., by seafaring people from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The seafaring people spoke a number of languages. However, these languages were quite similar to each other.

In some time, the people from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands settled down in England. Their languages mixed with each other and gradually became one language. This language began to develop its own features by 600 A.D. it had developed into what we call Old English. People from most parts of England started to use this language.

The English that we use now has taken several hundred years to grow from Old English.

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