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The Origin of the English Language
The ancient inhabitants of the British Islands belonged to the Celtic race. They spoke a language similar to Welsh or Gaelic, but only a few of their words and these chiefly geographical remained in the language now spoken by the English people.
Among the Germanic tribes were people called Angles and peoples called Saxons.
When these two peoples grew into one, they were called Anglo-Saxons, or more commonly Angles, or English alone, the general name which they gave to the country in which they had settled was England. Saxons as well as Angles called their speech English.
Very many English words are borrowed from other languages. We can find old German words, which the Saxons brought with them from the continent. There are many Latin words borrowed by the Anglo-Saxons from the Romans such as wine, money, mill, dish, cook, school and many more.
In studying the history of the language the question naturally rises about the general trend of its development. Different scholars have expressed different views concerning these questions.
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