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English is a Scandinavian language

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cibo2ICaBr97lkjLQ22tjRBmwm51r0Y-EC_YmmymrkAs1l2QYrctwTlbPh-aKbvC1H3jMJPgztdQia_tsrGlop1JnIZxPdBrcysGqLpAnT7pZZgcmeJjZjfA_sP2vt95BYdNjJbsanc/s1600/Orrmulum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cibo2ICaBr97lkjLQ22tjRBmwm51r0Y-EC_YmmymrkAs1l2QYrctwTlbPh-aKbvC1H3jMJPgztdQia_tsrGlop1JnIZxPdBrcysGqLpAnT7pZZgcmeJjZjfA_sP2vt95BYdNjJbsanc/s320/Orrmulum.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>By Trine Nickelsen Contrary to popular belief, the British did not 'borrow' words and concepts from the Norwegian and Danish Vikings and their descendants. What we call English is actually a form of Scandinavian.   "Have you considered how easy it is for us Norwegians to learn English?" asks Jan Terje Faarlund, professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo. "Obviously there are many English words that resemble ours. But there is something more: its fundamental structure is strikingly similar to Norwegian. We avoid many of the usual mistakes because the grammar is more or less the same. Faarlund and his colleague Joseph Emmonds, visiting professor from Palacký University in the Czech Republic, now believe they can prove that English is in reality a Scandinavian language, in other words it belongs to the Northern Germanic language group, just like Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese. This is totally new and breaks with what other language researchers and the rest of the world believe, namely that English descends directly from Old English. Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, is a West Germanic language, which the Angles and Saxons brought with them from Northern Germany and Southern Jylland when they settled in the British Isles in the fifth century. "Modern English is a direct descendant of the language of Scandinavians who settled in the British Isles in the course of many centuries, before the French-speaking Normans conquered the country in 1066," says Faarlund. He points out that Old English and Modern English are two very different languages. Why? "We believe it is because Old English quite simply died out while Scandinavian survived, albeit strongly influenced of course by Old English," he says. <a href="http://www.apollon.uio.no/english/articles/2012/4-english-scandinavian.html" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from the University of Oslo</a> See also <a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/26/the-history-of-english-in-ten-minutes/" target="_blank">The History of English in Ten Minutes</a>

English is a Scandinavian language

By Trine Nickelsen Contrary to popular belief, the British did not 'borrow' words and concepts from the Norwegian and Danish Vikings...

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Researchers ‘closer than ever’ to cracking 5000 year old writings

New technology has allowed researchers to come closer than ever to cracking the world’s oldest undeciphered writing system. Researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton have developed a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Ancient Documentary Artefacts to capture images of some of the world’s most important historical documents. Recently this system was used on objects held in the vaults of the Louvre Museum in Paris. These images have now been made available online for free public access on the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative website. Among the documents are manuscripts written in the so-called proto-Elamite writing system used in ancient Iran from 3,200 to 3,000 BC and which is the oldest undeciphered writing system currently known. By viewing extremely high quality images of these documents, and by sharing them with a community of scholars worldwide, the Oxford University team hope to crack the code once and for all. <a href="http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2012/10/researchers-closer-than-ever-to-cracking-5000-year-old-writings/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from History of the Ancient World</a>

Researchers ‘closer than ever’ to cracking 5000 year old writings

New technology has allowed researchers to come closer than ever to cracking the world’s oldest undeciphered writing system. Researchers from...

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New dictionary on ancient Egyptian language completes 37-year project

A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt — including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for the government — has been completed by scholars at the University of Chicago.  The ancient language is Demotic Egyptian, a name given by the Greeks to denote it was the tongue of the demos, or common people. It was written as a flowing script and was used in Egypt from about 500 B.C. to 500 A.D., when the land was occupied and usually dominated by foreigners, including Persians, Greeks and Romans. The language lives on today in words such as adobe, which came from the Egyptian word for brick. The word moved through Demotic, on to Arabic and eventually to Spain during the time of Islamic domination there, explained Janet Johnson, editor of the Chicago Demotic Dictionary. <a href="http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2012/09/new-dictionary-on-ancient-egyptian-language-completes-37-year-project/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from History of the Ancient World</a>

New dictionary on ancient Egyptian language completes 37-year project

A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt — including what taxes they paid, what they exp...

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Anglo-Saxons and hand-saex

As an invitation to explore the wonders of Old English, hand-saex is certainly arresting. The Dictionary of Old English, based at the University of Toronto (<a href="http://doe.utoronto.ca/">doe.utoronto.ca</a>), offered hand-saex as last week’s “word of the week.” Reader Susannah Cameron spotted it and sent the reference to Word Play. “Have to admit it caught my attention,” she said. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ArkMIlDxZDBCju6wlTtSimCYSTT8mEkIs4r3oooYC1hZYsUTrVoDldBXOmatvXO1dbDc_qNkLeIvnLwYXlT-NAY4Xfoi5jm5sfEZ30fLNx9HUPmCLQ7LSDaJ5w-Q5AtqQAM7So0zofc/s1600/1118077.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ArkMIlDxZDBCju6wlTtSimCYSTT8mEkIs4r3oooYC1hZYsUTrVoDldBXOmatvXO1dbDc_qNkLeIvnLwYXlT-NAY4Xfoi5jm5sfEZ30fLNx9HUPmCLQ7LSDaJ5w-Q5AtqQAM7So0zofc/s400/1118077.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>  Sadly for anyone expecting new insight into the intimate practices of Anglo-Saxons between the years 600 and 1150, the word refers to a knife or dagger. The knife was a saex, also spelled seax and (yes) sex, and a hand-saex was a weapon held in one hand. The word for hand in Old English was hand. Very handy.  Saex comes from a Germanic root (sah or sag) meaning to cut. It survives today only in the narrowly defined word sax, a tool used to trim roofing slates. But before the Norman Conquest of 1066 reshaped the English language and gave us Middle English – a process that took about a century to filter down to ordinary folks – saex was all the rage. <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/warren-clements/anglo-saxons-and-hand-saex/article2437271/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from The Globe and Mail</a> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fVc84pC9OEE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Anglo-Saxons and hand-saex

As an invitation to explore the wonders of Old English, hand-saex is certainly arresting. The Dictionary of Old English, based at the Unive...

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