The earliest forms of English, collectively known as " Old English", evolved from a group of North Sea Germanic dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th centuries. Speakers of English are called Anglophones.
However, its vocabulary also shows major influences from French (about 28% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 28%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots and then most closely related to the Low German and Frisian languages, English is genealogically Germanic. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.Įnglish is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. States and territories where English is a working language of the government, a language of education, and/or spoken by more than 20% of the population
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