When did the saxons and anglos converge to make a by product germanic english?
no it was far earler than that the acording to bede they arived in 449bc and there were four saxon kingdomes of northumbia mercia wessix and east anglea and alfred the greats grandson ethelstan unifed them and created england around 927 and as for the history of the language. English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian and Lower Saxon dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers and Roman auxiliary troops from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the northern Netherlands in the 5th century. One of these Germanic tribes were the Angles, who may have come from Angeln, and Bede wrote that their whole nation came to Britain, leaving their former land empty. The names ‘England’ (or ‘Aenglaland’) and English are derived from the name of this tribe. The Anglo Saxons began invading around 449 AD from the regions of Denmark and Jutland, Before the Anglo-Saxons arrived in England the native population spoke Brythonic, a Celtic language. Although t
