Sources of origin of the english language

The English language is now the first language of about 350 million people, the native language of 12 nations and the official or semiofficial language of thirty-three more nations. That means one in every seven people in the world speaks English.

Introduction……………………………………………………………….3
I. SOURCES OF ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1. I PERIOD…………………………………………………………..………5
1.1 Development of the language………………………………….……6
1.2 Origin of English…………………………………………………….7
1.3 The Scandinavian influence…………………………………….……9
2. II PERIOD……………………………………………………….…..….…11
2.1 The Norman Conquest………………………………...…………….13
2.2 The Latin influence…………………………………………………14
2.3 Development of a literary standard…………………………...….…15
3. III PERIOD………………...…………………………………………..…..16
3.1 Eighteenth-century movement to regularize the language…...…..…18
3.2 After-effects of eighteenth-century grammatical theories…….....…20
3.3 American English …………………………….……………………21
3.4 Our days……………………………….……………………………23
3.5 From the history of some words……………………………………24
THE CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………...26
THE LIST OF THE USED LITERATURE…………………………………….27
SUPPLEMENT………………………………………………………………….28