Chapter 2 Sources of English Vocabulary.ppt

文档介绍：Chapter 2
The sources
of the English Vocabulary
The English people are of a mixed blood. At the beginning of the fifth century Britain was invaded by three tribes from the Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
These three tribes landed on the British coast, drove the Britons west and north and settled down on the island.
These three three tribes merged into one people: the English people and the three dialects they spoke naturally grew into a single language: the English language.
The world has nearly 3,000 languages, which can be grouped into roughly 300 language families on the basis of similarities in their basic word stock and grammar. The Indo-European is made up of most of the languages of Europe, the near East, and India.
Indo-European Language
Eastern Set
Western Set
Armenian Albanian
Eastern Set
Balto-Slavic Indo-Irannian
Balto-Slavic
Czech Russian Prussian Polish
Slovenian Lithuanian Bulgarian
Indo-Iranian
Persian Bengali Hindi Romany
Derived from Sanskrit
Armenian Albanian
Armenian Albanian