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==Origin==

==Origin==

The origin of English is customarily linked to the date 449 C.E. This is the year in which the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Laud MS version) records the issuing of an invitation by Vortigern (king of the British, or Celts) to the "Angle kin" (Angles, led by Hengest and Horsa) to help them in their defense against the Picts. In return for their military assistance, the Chronicle says the Angles were granted lands in the southeast. Further aid was sought, and in response "came men of three peoples of Germanie": "of Ald Seaxum of Anglum of Iotum" (Saxons, Angles, and Jutes). These "immigrants" were, as the Chronicle tells us, Germanic, and the roots of English are in the Germanic family of languages. Germanic, in turn, is a branch of the Indo-European  family of languages. Subsequent to the establishment of English in "Englalond" (i.e., the land of the Angles), the most profound outside influences on the development of PDE are the Viking conquests and settlements--resulting in the establishment of the Danelaw--and the Norman Conquest. These events resulted in the assimiliation of Old Norse and French vocabulary and other linguistic features.

The origin of English is customarily linked to the date 449 C.E. This is the year in which the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Laud MS version) records the issuing of an invitation by Vortigern (king of the British, or Celts) to the "Angle kin" (Angles, led by Hengest and Horsa) to help them in their defense against the Picts. In return for their military assistance, the Chronicle says the Angles were granted lands in the southeast. Further aid was sought, and in response "came men of three peoples of Germanie": "of Ald Seaxum of Anglum of Iotum" (Saxons, Angles, and Jutes). These "immigrants" were, as the Chronicle tells us, Germanic, and the roots of English are in the Germanic family of languages. Germanic, in turn, is a branch of the Indo-European  family of languages. Subsequent to the establishment of English in "Englalond" (i.e., the land of the Angles), the most profound outside influences on the development of PDE (present day english) are the Viking conquests and settlements--resulting in the establishment of the Danelaw--and the Norman Conquest. These events resulted in the assimiliation of Old Norse and French vocabulary and other linguistic features.

==Chronology of Events in the History of English==

==Chronology of Events in the History of English==