The History of the English Language by Risa

Analysis and reflection done by Hugo Churches

English has become a global language, that’s true, but what about its origins? According to Risa’s article, English was a language which wasn’t as old as any other language; in fact, it’s more likely considered to have existed after several old languages had become obsolete or survived when others started disappearing. The old English that has evolved and that now we use nowadays started when some documents regarding its origin gave examples of the “Common Germanic Futharc”, described as the runic alphabet. These documents where written records, records written in English, they date from the mid to late seventh century. So, this language was old, but is it efficient like now? No, Risa’s article specified that English is a “stress language” which we actually use to distinguish words that we use, we stress on a syllable, one example Risa’s used was the FOLKes and folcES, both of these words are unrecognizable if we happened to find them in some document because now, in this modernized English, we now say Folks. Now, this article also shows that old English arrived in England during the fifth century, as told in the past article by Lucy Rucker, this language was spoken by Germanic tribes which were the Angles and the Saxons. These Germanic tribes called their language, “Englisc”. Although this tribe had already settled at England, its language didn’t become common on England until the 10 century. I can now say that English already existed in the fifth century but thanks to England politics and territory gain objectives might have blocked the development of the evolution of English. Risa’s article and all this information published looks good, has detailed explanation, examples where applied which really got me an idea on how English was weird to understand as a common language and contain a little information where other languages where at that time so as far as I am concerned Risa’s articles didn’t missed anything or didn’t forgot nothing to research, I didn’t knew the fact that English came from Angles and the Saxons which were persons that belonged to the Germanic tribes. So, in conclusion, I can say that language “Englisc” from the Germanic tribe (Angles and Saxons), was just a beginning of the evolution of Modern English which now is a global language. If we analyze how people used words in that time we can figure out how difficult was to learn English but now there are electronic and didactic tools that helps us learn English in a faster, better way.