The English language

Sille Laks
2006
- Part of Germanic branch of the Indo-European
languages

- Great number of words come from Latin, French,

Low-German and Scandinavian languages

- By year 1000, English consisted from about 40

000 words and was spoken about 1 million
people

- Nowadays English consists from about 800 000

words and is spoken by a little over 1 billion
people

- About 4000 new words enter the English

language each year
• Invasions,
• communicating with other cultures,
• inventions,
• tehcnological progress,
• music,
• fashion -
• some of the factors that have
helped to enrich the language
When I grow
up I want to
study
English so I
can talk to
everybody
• “English is the main language of books,
newspapers, airports and air-traffic
control, international businesses, and
academic conferences, science,
technology, diplomacy, sport, international
competitions, pop music and advertising”

• British Council
• From 1750 to 1950 the British Empire
covered ¼ of the Globe. After the colonies
became independent, they chose to
belong to the British Commonwealth and
English is spoken all over the
Commonwealth as a native or official
language.
• English started being used in
diplomacy in 1919 when the President
of the USA, President Wilson,
succeeded having the Treaty of
Versailles written in English as well as
in French and German
 Interesting to know
• 80% of world’s electronically stored information is in
English
• ¾ of world’s mail is in English
• There are 40 million internet users in the world, 80% of
them communicate in English
• There are 82 English speaking countries
• In 8 of them English is the only language
• “Computer”, “television”, “sport” and “film” come from
English language and have spread worldwide
• More than 1/3 of English words comes from French
• Guess where are those English dialects spoken!

• 1. Indonglish

• 2. Italglish

• 3. Deutschlish / Gerlish

• 4. Eurolich

• 5. Frenglish

• 6. Japlish / Janglish

• 7. Russlish

• 8. Spanglish
• Thank
• you
• for
• your
• attention
• 