Development and Prevalence of English as a Language

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TABLE OF CONTENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT2

DECLARATION3

Abstract5

Chapter 1: Background6

1.Introduction6

Chapter 2: Context8

2.1Literature Overview8

2.1 Specific Context of the study23

Chapter 3: The Study24

3.1 Methodology24

3.2 Sampling24

3.3 Data Collection25

Chapter 4: Conclusion25

References27

Appendix28

Abstract

The study titled 'Development and Prevalence of English as a Language' is aimed to undertake a study to increase the understanding and knowledge of English as a language and its prevalence in the contemporary world. Like any other language, English has not emerged as the dominant language over night. Today it is most widely spoken language in the entire world. However, it is also noteworthy that language has come under influence of different time eras and whatever we see English as today is developed by the conglomeration of array of dialects and development took place around the world at different epochs of times. The literature search undertaken is aimed to report these developments while the primary search based on questionnaire survey is also conducted to gain the general awareness about the level of English language being used by different age groups and determine if academic background of a person and age can influence his/her understanding and choice of words in normal course of conversation.

Chapter 1: Background

Introduction

In the contemporary world, English has become one of the most spoken languages followed by maiden Chinese. Although there are also other languages, English has a distinct significance in the entire world. It is one of the oldest languages which have reached to us after travelling different geographical locations and epochs of times.

English and Frisian must both have grown out of the unrecorded lingua franca of the North Sea seaways in the 4th and 5th century's ad, when Germanic mercenaries fought for and against the Roman Empire, eventually overwhelming it. In Italy, southern France and Spain their migrations had come overland. To the north, in northern France and Britain, the lands of the empire were approached by sea.

Out of this ethnic and linguistic melting-pot, Frisian was to emerge in the mainland ports: but Frisian is now nothing more than a regional language in districts of the Netherlands and north-western Germany. English owes its origin to the migrants ('Angles, Saxons and Jutes') who crossed the sea and settled in the Roman provinces of Britain, particularly after ...