The brief history of English language The birthplace of English language was not England, but North Germany and Netherlands, also, in nearby area, there were Latin speaker from Roman. The melding of these two languages became Proto-English later, as well as called Old English. Old English was a borrowed language since 2000 words from Old Norse and 400 Latin words from Christianity. Beowulf wrote by Old English and it is hard to read for modern people. With the Normans’ conquering to England in 1066, there were two groups of language user: kings and nobles spoke Old Norman but common people spoke Old English. Two main changes emerged: the dissolution of the n. and adj. ending; the plurals’ ending by “s” instead of by “en”. Also, English borrowed 10,000 words from French. In this period time, we call it Middle English, and the most famous example is Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. In 15 CE-16CE, after the Great Vowel shift and the Printing technical practice, more people could read and travel, so number of words from different languages to be assimilated mainly from Italin and Yiddish. Shakespeare was a famous one at that time and that language became what we know now as Early Modern English. Later, the influence of Industry Revolution involved much more new words from Early Modern English to Modern English. English Today has two variations of British English and American English spoken by estimated 400 million people, and there are totally 1 billion English speakers including many regional varieties of English which have developed around the world.