Fill in the Blanks Fill in the Blanks Evolution of the English LanguageOnline version Fill in the Blanks Evolution of the English Language by Uriel 1 Latin 1066 French 1088 Spanish The Norman invasion of England in . When the French - speaking Normans conquered England and became its ruling class , they brought their speech with them , adding a massive amount of and vocabulary to the English language previously spoken there . 2 Germanic Picts Angles Latin Old English belongs to the language family , first brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries by the , Saxons , and Jutes . 3 p pd pf German words starting with " p , " systematically shifted to a " " sound while their Old English counterparts kept the " " unchanged . 4 700 500 Latin French Swedish Proto-Germanic English , , German , and many other languages descended from their own common ancestor known as spoken around B . C . E 5 Russia France Ukraine Spain Proto-Indo-European Proto Germanic , spoken about 6000 years ago on the Pontic steppe in modern day and .
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