REPÚBLICA DE ANGOLA

GOVERNO DA PROVÍNCIA DE LUANDA

COMPLEXO ESCOLAR PRIVADO AMIGO DO SABER

ENGLISH WORK

THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

IN THE WORLD

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 REPÚBLICA DE ANGOLA
GOVERNO DA PROVÍNCIA DE LUANDA

COMPLEXO ESCOLAR PRIVADO AMIGO DO SABER

ENGLISH WORK

THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

IN THE WORLD

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Members: Adriano Vicunga
 Augusto Narciso
 Beatriz Júnior
 Elisa Afonso
 Fábio Pacheco
 Isabel dos Santos
 Jacira Luco
 Josafat Mbele
 Josefa Patrício
 Josias Samuel
 Mateus Severino
 Nazarino Vicente
Class: 9th
Living room:
Shift: Afternoon
Class:

Teacher
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Mr. Keny B

Luanda, 2024
 THANKS

First, we thank God for the strength and dedication they have
given us, and our families for their support and contribution, which
helped us to carry out the work.

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 DEDICATION

We dedicate this work to all those who have contributed directly or

indirectly to the realization of this work.

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 ÍNDICE
AGRADECIMENTO............................................................................................................................ii
DEDICATÓRIA...................................................................................................................................iii
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................1
DEVELOPMENT.................................................................................................................................2
1. The English Language................................................................................................................2
1. Expansion history...................................................................................................................3
1. Geographical distribution......................................................................................................4
1. Importance of the English language in the world...............................................................5
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................7
BIBLIOGRAFIA...................................................................................................................................8

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 INTRODUCTION
The present, English work, aims to deepen our knowledge about "the
importance of the English language in the world". English is a West Germanic Indo-
European language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread
to what would become southeastern Scotland under the influence of the medieval
Anglo-European kingdom of Northumbria.

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 DEVELOPMENT

1. The English Language

English is a West Germanic Indo-European language that arose in the

Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread to what would become southeastern
Scotland under the influence of the medieval Anglo-European kingdom of
Northumbria. After centuries of extensive influence from Britain and the United
Kingdom since the eighteenth century, through the British Empire, and the United
States since the mid-twentieth century, English has been widely dispersed across
the planet, becoming the main language of international discourse, a lingua franca in
many regions, and is also the second language of many people in various countries
around the world. The language is widely learned as a second language and used as
the official language of the European Union, the United Nations and many
Commonwealth countries, as well as many other world organisations. It is the third
most spoken language worldwide as a first language, after Mandarin and Spanish.

Historically, English originated from the fusion of languages and dialects,

now collectively termed Old English, which were brought to the east coast of Britain
by Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) peoples in the fifth century, the word English being
derived from the name of the Angles and finally from their ancestral region of Angeln
(in what is now Schleswig-Holstein). A significant number of English words are built
on the roots of Latin, as that language was in some way the lingua franca of the
Christian Church and European intellectual life. English was more influenced by the
Old Norse language, due to Viking invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The Norman conquest of England in the eleventh century gave rise to strong
borrowings from the Franco-Norman and the conventions of vocabulary and spelling
began to give the superficial appearance of a close relationship of English to the
Romance languages, what is now called Middle English. The Great Vowel Shift,
which began in southern England in the fifteenth century, is one of the historical
events that mark the emergence of modern English from Middle English.

Due to the assimilation of words from many other languages throughout

modern history, English contains a very large vocabulary. Modern English has not

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only assimilated words from other European languages, but also from all over the
world, including words from Hindi and African origins.

1. Expansion history

English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian

and Old Saxon dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of
what is now northwestern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Up until this
time, the native population of Roman Britain spoke the British Celtic language along
with the acroletal influence of Latin, since the 400-year Roman occupation.

One of the Germanic tribes that arrived in Britain were the Angles, who Bede
believed had completely changed Britain. The names england (from Engla land or
"land of the angles") and english (from Old English englisc) are derived from the
name of this tribe; however Saxons, Jutes and a variety of Germanic peoples from
the coasts of Friesland, Lower Saxony, Sweden and South Jutland also moved to
Britain at this time.

Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied
origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Britain, but one of these dialects, West
Saxon, eventually came to dominate and it is in this that the poem Beowulf was
written.

Old English was later transformed by two waves of invasions:

1. The first was by speakers of the North Germanic language branch, when
Haldano and Ivar the Boneless began the conquest and colonization of the
northern British Isles in the 8th and 9th centuries.
2. The second was by speakers of Old Norman, a Romance language, in the
eleventh century with the Norman conquest of England. Norman developed
into Anglo-Norman and then into Anglo-French, when he introduced a new
range of words, especially through the courts and government.

In addition to broadening the lexicon with Scandinavian and Norman words,

these two events also simplified grammar and turned English into a loaner language,
more open to accepting new words from other languages.

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 The linguistic change in English after the Norman invasion produced what is
now known as Middle English, with Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales being
the best-known work.

Throughout this period Latin, in some form, was the lingua franca of
European intellectual life, first the medieval Latin of the Christian Church, but then
the humanistic Latin of the Renaissance and those who wrote or copied Latin texts
commonly coined new terms of the language to refer to things or concepts for which
there was no native word existing in English.

Modern English, which includes the works of William Shakespeare and the
King James Bible, is usually dated to around 1550, and when the United Kingdom
became a colonial power, the language served as the lingua franca of the colonies of
the British Empire. In the post-colonial period, some of the newly created nations that
had multiple native languages chose to continue to employ English as a lingua
franca to avoid the political difficulties inherent in promoting any one language of its
own above the others. As a result of the growth of the British Empire, English was
adopted in Anglo-Saxon America, India, Africa, Australia, and many other regions, a
trend extended with the emergence of the United States as a superpower in the mid-
twentieth century, notably after World War II.

1. Geographical distribution

About 375 million people speak English as their first language. English today
is probably the third-largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin
Chinese and Spanish. However, when combining native and non-native speakers, it
is probably the most widely spoken language in the world, although eventually the
latter, lagging a combination of Chinese languages (depending on the distinctions or
not, these languages are classified as "languages" or "dialects").

Estimates that include speakers of English as a second language range from

470 million to more than one billion, depending on how literacy or mastery is defined
and measured. Professor of Linguistics David Crystal calculates that nonspeakers
already outnumber native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1.

The countries with the largest population of native English speakers are, in
descending order:

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 1. United States (215 million);
2. United Kingdom (61 million);
3. Canada (18.2 million);
4. Australia (15.5 million);
5. Nigeria (4 million);
6. Ireland (3.8 million);
7. South Africa (3.7 million);
8. New Zealand (3.6 million).

However, although the United States is the country with the largest number
of natives who speak this language, English is not the official language of the
country, which does not have an official language in its Constitution, unlike Brazil, for
example, which defines Portuguese as its constitutional language. It is even possible
for each U.S. state to adopt the language it wants as its official language, simply by
creating an article in its state legislation.

1. Importance of the English language in the world

The English language now has more than 370 million speakers in various
parts of the world.

Speaking English today is synonymous with having a better income, getting

a better job. It's having one step ahead of competitors for a job opening. It is to open
the doors to a constantly developing universe and to feel like a citizen of a globalized
world.

English is the language of the internet, computer science, world cinema,

international sports, aviation, navigation, scientific meetings, international trade and
tourism. It is, in fact, the most studied language in the world outside of its countries
of origin. There is no denying or masking its importance.

The expansion of the English language began with the Industrial Revolution
and the colonization process of many countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and
Oceania. Although the conditions for establishing English as an international
language were implemented by Great Britain, the emergence of the United States as
a superpower in the mid-twentieth century ensured the consolidation of this language
as a global language. The phenomenon of increasing globalization of the world and

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the consequent need for an efficient language of communication has made the
English language fundamental today all over the world. It is the language of
international, travel and business. It is the language of world communication.

Mastery of the language means growth, development and, above all, better
conditions to keep up with the rapid changes that have been taking place. English
thus opens the door to personal, professional and cultural development.

It is estimated that 85% of the world's scientific publications, 75% of all

international written communication, 80% of the information stored on all the world's
computers, and 90% of the content on the Internet are in English.

It is an essential attribute to enter an increasingly competitive job market.

With increasing globalization, many young people will be forced to seek a better life
abroad soon. English opens many doors, starting with the door of the job market.

With the emergence of the Internet, knowledge of English has become

fundamental for those who want to have access to information and want, for
example, to do an efficient search on the Web. The Internet, as one of the most
powerful technological instruments capable of bringing and carrying information, will
emphasize the importance of language.

English is the language of computer science, world cinema, international

sports, aviation, scientific meetings, international trade and tourism. It has a social
and communicative function. It has become the vehicle of cultural exchange. The
intensification of the process of interaction between peoples and cultures through
closer economic relations has transformed the mastery of English into an asset. Until
recently, English was a privilege of the few, today it is a necessity of many.

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 CONCLUSION

Through this work and the research done, we conclude that:

 English has become the world's language. It is this

universal language that maintains contact between different
nations.
 That the spread of the English language occurred due to
the great development of the economy of the United
States, which has dominated the world market for several
decades, due to the import and export of its products and
the flow of people in the countries.
 That in a competitive job market, companies are looking for
good professionals and increasingly require qualifications
or a differential, such as a second language, English,
French or German.

Finally, the English language today is so important in almost all segments of

world societies, because it is through it that many technologies are developed, and
the number of people speaking this language that has also been known as the global
commercial language continues to grow.

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