The English language, like many other languages ​​in the world, has evolved over time and gone through many stages, including near extinction. So, where and when did this story begin? 2000 years ago, in what would now be the United Kingdom, language was incomprehensible. Anglo-Saxon, also known as Old English, was a language that resembled the modern Frisian language. This language arrived when Germanic tribes invaded Britain and subjugated the native Celts. Nowadays, some words have remained more or less the same over the centuries, words like: buter (butter), brea (bread), tsiis (cheese), miel (meal), sliepe (sleep), boat (boat). ), snie (snow), see (sea), stoarm (storm). It was the West Germanic tribes who invented these words. Anglo-Saxon, we all speak it on a daily basis; nouns like: youth, son, daughter, field, friend, house and land; prepositions: in, on in, by and from. And, one; come from Old English, so all the numbers and verbs like: drink, come, go, sing, love and love. Britain was divided into several kingdoms: Wessex, Sussex, Kent, Essex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria. In the 6th and 7th centuries, Christian missionaries brought the Latin language, so the Anglo-Saxons absorbed Latin words which caused the language to evolve. Christian missionaries brought the Latin alphabet which would later become the primary means of Anglo-Saxon writing. Beowulf was the first great ritual poem written in Old English; since its appearance it marked the beginning of a glorious tradition that would lead to Chaucer, Shakespeare and beyond. With this poem, the descriptive and narrative power is revealed; the poem describes the glorious times of the hero Beowulf of the Geats. Language...... middle of paper ...... street language was not allowed in Jane Austen's world. In the late 18th and 19th centuries came the industrial revolution with its new words to enrich the English language; not only did it change the language, but it also changed the world. The steam engine changed the meanings of words such as "train", "locomotive" and "tracks" so that they could adapt to new technology. There was a change in society as well, 'Cockney rhyming slang' appeared and became a new form of speech used by the lower class. Today, English travels around the globe, it inhabits the air we breathe. What began as an isolated guttural tribal dialectic simile on a small island is today the language of more than a billion people worldwide. The history of the English language is extraordinary, tenacity, near-extinction luck, dazzling flexibility and extraordinary power to absolve..