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Who invented the ENGLISH language?

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Who invented the ENGLISH language?

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All language slowly evolves over time as the speakers of a language adapt it to their current communication needs. The main pressures on language are regularization (you want a simple set of rules to internalize for easy communication) and irregularization (you want the most commonly used terms to be as orthogonal and distinct as possible, so as to avoid confusion). This is why English has pretty consistent conjugation rules for verbs, but the most commonly used verbs (and the ones that refer to basic actions and state of being) have irregular tenses so that there is less possibility for confusion. Language change is a balance between these two forces, and also includes accepting loan words from other languages. English is particularly good at the latter, because we have a relatively large number of valid phonemes and phonetic clusters, meaning that most foreign words (particularly those from other Indo-European languages) are more-or-less pronounceable for English speakers. This is no

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The English language developed in England with West Germanic roots during the Anglo-Saxon era. Initially it originated from several Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Vikings dialects early in the 5th Century.

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