The History of English

The date at which we can actually confirm that germanic dialects were on the ground and being spoken in scandinavia is around 500 b c. There was a continuous evolution of the original indo european language into that usitovu dialect, then mixing with the languages of the corted ware people. But beyond those general statements, there's just not enough evidence to give any specific time frame or exact sequence of events to describe how we got there. In the next episode, i'm going to start with the hittites and the greeks. Now the hittite language didn't really have any direct impact on english, but greek certainly did. And