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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh. There's Chuck Jerry's here.

And if you'd never noticed before, we're speaking English.

So we're going to talk about the history of the English language, because that's the one we use right now.

Yeah. The briefest history, because we certainly could have done like a really robust full episode on this.

Yeah. But I like this short version. And we want to thank EnglishClub.com and a particular, the conversation.com and a professor of lit at the University of Bristol name Add Putter.

Go fighting Abbey's. Is that what it is? Got me again.

But anyway, Putter wrote a really good article that that helped out with this one, but we're talking about the history of the English language briefly.

Because I was just kind of curious, like who are the first people to speak English?

And the first English is what you have to talk about first, which is of course old English, which came about right after the Romans left Britain.

This is, you know, it was a very long time ago. They colonized Britain, but they were like things aren't going so great in the Roman Empire.

So we're going to leave. Yeah. So it's just interesting that Romans spoke Latin,

but the Brits spoke Celtic. And then after the Romans left, because their empire was crumbling all around them, the Brits still kept speaking Celtic.

But not for very long, because the Romans had basically been occupying Britain, but they'd also been in turn protecting it.

But as the Roman Empire crumbled, it left Britain totally vulnerable and open to invasion. And in very short order, that's exactly what happened.

Three Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, all basically came down from Northern Germany, Denmark area, and said, we own this place now.

You guys are going to start speaking like us.

Yeah. They spoke what's called North Sea Germanic. And those Celtic speakers were kind of they ended up where they ended up, which was north and west.

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