英语的历史 英文版

具体如下：

English is a West Germanic language branch. It was first used by medieval Britain and has become the most widely used language in the world because of its vast colonies. The Anglo tribe, the ancestor of the British, is one of the Germanic tribes that later migrated to the island of Great Britain, known as England.

英语是一种西日耳曼语支，最早被中世纪的英国使用，并因其广阔的殖民地而成为世界使用面积最广的语言。英国人的祖先盎格鲁部落是后来迁移到大不列颠岛地区的日耳曼部落之一，称为英格兰。

Both names come from Anglia on the Baltic Peninsula, which is closely related to Frisian and lower Saxon. Its vocabulary is influenced by other Germanic languages, especially Nordic (North Germanic), and is largely written in Latin and French.

这两个名字都来自波罗的海半岛的Anglia，该语言与弗里斯兰语和下撒克森语密切相关，其词汇受到其他日耳曼语系语言的影响，尤其是北欧语（北日耳曼语），并在很大程度上由拉丁文和法文撰写。

English has developed for more than 1400 years. The earliest form of English is a group of West Germanic dialects brought to Britain by Anglo Saxon immigrants in the 5th century, which are collectively referred to as ancient English.

英语已经发展了1400多年，英语的最早形式是由盎格鲁-撒克逊人移民于5世纪带到英国的一组西日耳曼语支（Ingvaeonic）方言，被统称为古英语。