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Languages of the United Kingdom

  • Irish languagePrimitive Irish inscriptions from the 4th century AD mark the earliest written evidence of this Celtic language. These carvings appear throughout Ireland and…
  • British EnglishIn the eighth and ninth centuries, speakers of Scandinavian Germanic dialects settled in parts of Britain. This migration introduced a significant…
  • English languageIn the 5th century, Germanic tribes known as Angles, Saxons, and Jutes crossed the North Sea to settle in Britain. These people spoke dialects that would…