English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca.英语是一种西日耳曼语言，最早在中世纪早期的英国使用，最终成为全球通用语言。
It is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, as England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula in the Baltic Sea.它是以盎格鲁人命名的，盎格鲁人是迁移到大不列颠地区的日耳曼部落之一，后来以他们的名字命名为英格兰。这两个名字都来源于波罗的海半岛安格利亚。The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language), and to a greater extent by Latin and French.该语言与弗里西亚语和下萨克森语密切相关，其词汇受到其他日耳曼语言，特别是挪威语（北日耳曼语言）的显著影响，并且在很大程度上受到拉丁语和法语的影响。English has developed over the course of more than 1；400 years. The earliest forms of English, a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century, are collectively called Old English.英语已经发展了1400多年。英语的最早形式是5世纪盎格鲁撒克逊殖民者带到英国的一组西日耳曼方言，统称为古英语。Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England; this was a period in which the language was influenced by French.中世纪英语始于11世纪末，诺曼征服了英格兰，这是一个受法语影响的时期。
