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How has english evolved throughout time

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The evolution of spoken English began from the fifth century, with waves of attack and eventual occupation by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. They spoke the same West Germanic tongue but with different dialects. Their intermingling created a new Germanic language; now referred to as Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.
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The English language started with numerous letters but we mostly started with symbols that meant something, after a while people used pictures to say words until the human race learned English
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