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True origins, yet to be found

The origins of the English language

Language is one of aesthetic tools of expressing thoughts , emotions and sharing impressions , and it is always interesting to find out whether people , who lived on the same territory , used the same language apparatus for communication . The English language is extremely rich given Celtic , Roman , Turkish and German influences it went through

The territory where the language conceived , Britain , was inhabited by several different tribes in the course of history . Two thousand years ago , in the Iron Age , the peninsula was a place of residence for

Celtic tribes , which had their own language and a unique culture , which have survived till the present day in Wales and other localities of the modern UK . In modern English , there is a number of words of Celtic origin , mostly associated with transportation : a cart , a car , coracle and so forth (Mores , 1986 ,

. 111 . Later , in the first century AD Romans arrived into Britain and ruled the territory for about 400 years The new rulers imposed their own way of life and culture , making use of the existing Celtic aristocracy to govern and encouraging this ruling class to adopt Roman dress and Roman language (Mores , 1986 ,

. 136 so there are much more Latin than Celtic words in the modern English For instance , most words ending with -ization (e .g , organization civilization ) are of Latin origin . Nowadays , they are an integral part of our language . The words associated with time and date and measurements were also borrowed...

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