Birth of a Language

The Adventure of English Season 1 Episode 1

Overview:
We are going to delve down to the roots of the language and deduce its history - and in that one sentence we hear words from four different sources; delve from Dark Age Anglo-Saxon, root from Danish invaders, language from medieval French, and deduce from Renaissance Latin; four of the main - but not all - contributors to the richness of modern English.

Genre : Documentary

Actors : Melvyn Bragg

Release Date : 2003-11-06

Duration : 65 menit

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Other Episodes (Season 1)

Birth of a Language
1. Birth of a Language
English Goes Underground
2. English Goes Underground
The Battle for the Language of the Bible
3. The Battle for the Language of the Bible
This Earth, This Realm, This England
4. This Earth, This Realm, This England
English in America
5. English in America
Speaking Proper
6. Speaking Proper
The Language of Empire
7. The Language of Empire
Many Tongues Called English, One World Language
8. Many Tongues Called English, One World Language

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