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When we talk about English, we often think of it as a single language but what do the dialects spoken in dozens of countries around the world have in common with each other, or with the writings of Chaucer?
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When we talk about English, we often think of it as a single language but what do the dialects spoken in dozens of countries around the world have in common with each other, or with the writings of Chaucer?
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And how are any of them related to the strange words in Beowulf?
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The answer is that like most languages, English has evolved through generations of speakers, undergoing major changes over time.
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By undoing these changes, we can trace the language from the present day back to its ancient roots.
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While modern English shares many similar words with Latin-derived romance languages, like French and Spanish, most of those words were not originally part of it.
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Instead, they started coming into the language with the Norman invasion of England in 1066.
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When the French-speaking Normans conquered England and became its ruling class, they brought their speech with them, adding a massive amount of French and Latin vocabulary to the English language previously spoken there.
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Today, we call that language Old English.
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This is the language of Beowulf.
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It probably doesn't look very familiar, but it might be more recognizable if you know some German.
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That's because Old English belongs to the Germanic language family, first brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
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The Germanic dialects they spoke would become known as Anglo-Saxon.
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Viking invaders in the 8th to 11th centuries added more borrowings from Old Norse into the mix.
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It may be hard to see the roots of modern English underneath all the words borrowed from French, Latin, Old Norse and other languages.
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But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary.
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For example, after the 6th century, German words starting with "p," systematically shifted to a "pf" sound while their Old English counterparts kept the "p" unchanged.
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In another split, words that have "sk" sounds in Swedish developed an "sh" sound in English.
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There are still some English words with "sk," like "skirt," and "skull," but they're direct borrowings from Old Norse that came after the "sk" to "sh" shift.
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These examples show us that just as the various Romance languages descended from Latin, English, Swedish, German, and many other languages descended from their own common ancestor known as Proto-Germanic spoken around 500 B.C.E.
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Because this historical language was never written down, we can only reconstruct it by comparing its descendants, which is possible thanks to the consistency of the changes.
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We can even use the same process to go back one step further, and trace the origins of Proto-Germanic to a language called Proto-Indo-European, spoken about 6000 years ago on the Pontic steppe in modern day Ukraine and Russia.
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This is the reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European family that includes nearly all languages historically spoken in Europe, as well as large parts of Southern and Western Asia.
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And though it requires a bit more work, we can find the same systematic similarities, or correspondences, between related words in different Indo-European branches.
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Comparing English with Latin, we see that English has "t" where Latin has "d", and "f" where latin has "p" at the start of words.
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Some of English's more distant relatives include Hindi, Persian and the Celtic languages it displaced in what is now Britain.
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Proto-Indo-European itself descended from an even more ancient language, but unfortunately, this is as far back as historical and archeological evidence will allow us to go.
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Many mysteries remain just out of reach, such as whether there might be a link between Indo-European and other major language families, and the nature of the languages spoken in Europe prior to its arrival.
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But the amazing fact remains that nearly 3 billion people around the world, many of whom cannot understand each other, are nevertheless speaking the same words shaped by 6000 years of history.
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