全国自考《英语词汇学》复习资料第二章

全国自考《英语词汇学》复习资料第二章

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第二章

Indo-European language family (Europe， the Near East， India)

Balto –Slavic Indo-Iranian Italic Germanic

Prussian Persian Portuguese Norwegian

Lithuanian Hindi Spanish Icelandie

Polish Italian Danish

Bulgarian Roumanian Swedish

Slovenian French English

Russian German

Albanian Armenian Celtic Hellenic

Irish Greek

Breton

Scottish

2. History (时间，历史事件，特征)

1) Old English (450-1150) totally 50，000-60，000 words

The 1st people known to inhabit England were Celts， the language was Celtic.

The second language was the Latin of the Roman Legions.

The Germanic tribes called angles， Saxons and Jutes and their language，

Anglo-Saxon dominated and blotted out the Celtic. Now people refer to Anglo-Saxon

as old English.

At the end of 6th century， the introduction of Christianity has a great impact on

the English vocabulary.