English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants ...

England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated.

Happisburgh · Timeline of English history · Creswellian culture · Military

This is a timeline of English history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in England and its predecessor states.

Old English or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle ...

Old English literature · Latin alphabet · Old English grammar · Phonology

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England.

English language in England · Dictionary · West Germanic · English-speaking world

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, ...

This article describes the development of the phonology of English over time, starting from its roots in proto-Germanic to diverse changes in different dialects ...

Vowels · Middle English phonology · Single consonants