Question

Describe the historical and sociolinguistics reason for the dissemination of english in the british isle.

Answer 1

The modern English of this era has become popular and known because of the reasons discussed below:

1)  Before 50 BC, English and Romans invaded and hence English and Latin got mixed and words were shifted from one language to another.

2) Further, German and English mixed as people moved from one country to other due to various reasons. Later, french language and English language mixed.

Since England was powerful in Medieval times and English moved widely to expand their kingdoms, English language adopted words of other languages and English became popular in the colonies.

Answer 2

Socio-linguistic reasons in British Isle:  

• Diversity in regional and urban dialects.

• Due to increment in population of Urban areas, individuals migrated and has influenced the accent.  

• Increment in 'minority ethnic' populace such as, population of English and Welsh together have influenced British socio-linguistic changes.  

• Practice of native minority dialects is one of the variables.  

Historical Reasons:  

• The West Germanic language is English.  

• Its roots lie in dialects of Anglo-Frisian.  

• German pioneers presented the language.  

• Before the arrival of English, Common Brittonic was generally used.