文档介绍：Chapter 2
The Development of the English Vocabulary
I. The Indo-European Language Family
1) Armenian
2) Albanian Prussian普鲁士语
Lithuanian立陶宛语
Polish波兰语
3) Balto-Slavic Czech捷克
Bulgarian保加利亚语
Slovenian斯洛文尼亚语
Russian俄罗斯语
an Eastern set Persian波斯语
Bengali 孟加拉语
4) Indo-Iranian Hindi 北印度语
Romany吉普赛语
Scottish苏格兰语
Irish爱尔兰语
1) Celtic Welsh威尔士
Breton布列塔尼语
Pictish皮克特语
Portuguese葡萄牙语
Spanish西班牙语
2)Italic French法语
Italian意大利语
Rumanian罗马尼亚语
The Indo-European 3) Hellenic: Greek is the modern language
derived from Hellenic
Language Family an Western Set English英语
German德语
4) Germanic Dutch荷兰语
Flemish弗来芒语 Norwegian
Icelandic
Scandinavian languages Danish
Swedish
5)Hittite
6) Tocharian
II. A Brief History of English Words
English has a history of only 1,500 years, developing from a local language spoken by a small number of people on a small island about the middle of the fifth century. But now English is one of the most important languages in the world, spoken by more than 370 million people as a first language in the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies and South Africa. And another 300 million people use English as a second language or official language, or as the medium of instruction in school and universities in those countries, English has a important position, it is estimated th