Lectures of History of the English Language

Normally, what people need Old English for? For understanding and discussing the language. We need to know about the historical change. Relative to Germanic studies.
Old English is a set of language, different from modern one.

INTRODUCTION

We have to know the language group to know what we are exactly doing. There are lots of language families. The largest is
INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY

American-Indian l-ges Finno-Ugric l-ges

FINNISH EESTI KAREL
to this language group belongs
HUNGARIAN

SEMITIC LANGUAGES

HEBREW

For a language group territory does not play much a role of their spreading. The family of Indo-European l-ges is large, is spread over 3 or 4 continents.…