Linguistics

The English language is a West Germanic language, which first developed during the 5th century A.D. when three Germanic tribes settled onto Great Britain, these tribes being the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. With them, they brought a series of Anglo-Frisian dialects, which developed into the earliest form of English known as “Old English.” […]

Language changes all over time, language change is found on all levels of language, both in the past and in the present, it changes on spellings, meanings of words, pronunciation, syntax and other features of language. Language changes on spellings like knight, thorough and changeable which have an e in the middle when argument does […]

4.3. English Vowels. The description and distribution of Englishmonophthongs and diphthongs Having established the vowel chart as a basic system of reference we can now proceed to a brief description of the vowel phonemes of English and of their distribution in a manner similar to that used in the case of consonants. A. The English […]