language change

Question 1

what are the time periods?

Answer 1

old english (5th century-11th)
middle english (11th-15th)
early modern (15th-18th)
modern (18th-now)

Question 2

old english

Answer 2

-celtic dialects, influcenced by the angles saxons and jutes
-celtic dialects moved to wales cornwall scotland and ireland which are all on the coast
-latin was a lingua franca
-english began to be written in roman alphabet
-when normans invaded the french became the aristocracy so did the language and anglo saxon became a dialect of the peasanrty

Question 3

middle english

Answer 3

-norman and latin were still presigious
-great vowel shift
-hundred years war
-great plague
-printing press in LONDON
-chaucer

Question 4

modern

Answer 4

-rural urban migration
-emphasis on language class divide and accents and dialects
-british empire, borrowing words and spreading our language
-world wars led to new nouns being created
-film industry on the rise
-internet and technology, radios and TV rp and presenters