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Mother Tongue

• 1986 ----- color ----- 58 min ----- vhs
• (Story of English, The series, Part 2) Explores how English developed from the everyday speech of a few obscure Germanic tribes--the Angles, Saxons, Frisians and Jutes. When these tribes invaded the British Isles in 49 A.D., the natives were driven into remote areas and the Anglo-Saxon language was established. Two later invasions greatly influenced the development of English: one by the Vikings in 793 A.D. and the second by the Normans in 1066 A.D. Traces these invasions and shows how the people of the British Isles developed a sense of nationalism along with a national language. Finally, it examines the importance of Chaucer to the development of an English literature.
• Topics: (English, History: British, Linguistics)

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