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[supporttheunderdog]

http://www.archaeology.ws/index.html

http://www.proto-english.org/l2.html

http://www.geneticancestor.com/Forster2004Festschrift.pdf

http://www.romanarmy.net/invasion.shtml

http://english-language-origin.webs.com/

So how old is the English language in England then?

[GreekIslandGirl]

My sympathies go out to you. English is even more adulterated than we previously thought. Its Germanic foundations are enriched with Latin, Greek and French. It's an OK language today.

None of your articles actually date modern English as being any older than post-Shakespeare, and Olde English arrived in waves from the continent and most latterly around the 7th to 8th century AD.

But it's interesting that one of your sources still considers it essential to look to Greek historians for your identity ...

"Further uncertainty surrounds
the timing of the arrival of Celtic languages
to the British Isles, and indeed the definition of the
term ‘Celtic’ itself, which was never applied to Britain
by Greek and Roman historians (Renfrew 1987)."



Anyway, the only true authority on the history of English is my darling David Crystal.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... words.html

[Paphitis]

Conclusion: English should be the only official language of the RoC!

[GreekIslandGirl]

No, we don't want to adopt any newly-constructed Germanic languages here in Cyprus!

[Paphitis]

No, we don't want to adopt any newly-constructed Germanic languages here in Cyprus!

Oracle, I would rather adopt German anytime, than to have Greek and Turkish!

[Sotos]

Conclusion: English should be the only official language of the RoC!

Conclusion: You are a moron

[Sotos]

Until now, the so-called Minimalists have set the tone in British archeology. They believe in what they call an "elite transfer", in which a small caste of Germanic noble warriors, perhaps a few thousand, placed themselves at the top of society in a coup of sorts, and eventually even displaced the Celtic language with their own. Many contemporary Britons, not overly keen on having such a close kinship with the Continent, like this scenario.

In truth, however, the army of the Britons was usually in retreat. Many fell into captivity. According to Härke, the captured Britons lived a miserable existence as "servants and maids" in the villages of the Anglo-Saxons.

There were two types of grave in the cemeteries of the time: those containing swords and other weapons, and those with none. The local inhabitants, deprived of their rights, were apparently buried in the latter type of grave.

The London geneticist Mark Thomas is convinced that the conquerors from the continent maintained "social structures similar to apartheid," a view supported by the laws of King Ine of Wessex (around 695). They specify six social levels for the Britons, five of which refer to slaves.

As a result of the brutal subjugation, the reproduction rate of the losing Britons was apparently curbed, while the winners had many children. The consequences are still evident today in the British gene pool. "People from rural England are more closely related to the northern Germans than to their countrymen from Wales or Scotland," Härke explains.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/eur ... 68706.html

[Paphitis]

Conclusion: English should be the only official language of the RoC!

Conclusion: You are a moron

Why. Do you still think Greek is an important language?

[kurupetos]

No, we don't want to adopt any newly-constructed Germanic languages here in Cyprus!

Ignore him, because he's not a Cypriot.

[Paphitis]

No, we don't want to adopt any newly-constructed Germanic languages here in Cyprus!

Ignore him, because he's not a Cypriot.

Look Charloui, I am Cypriot and Nationalistic as they come, so you better get that straight before you make a fool of yourself.

What are you foreigners doing on a Cypriot Forum anyway?