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  2. History of English - Wikipedia

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    Middle English is the form of English spoken roughly from the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 until the end of the 15th century. For centuries after the Conquest, the Norman kings and high-ranking nobles in England and to some extent elsewhere in the British Isles spoke Anglo-Norman , a variety of Old Norman , originating from a northern ...

  3. Languages of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent English colonies were founded at Saint Kitts (1624) and Barbados (1627). The English language is the third most established throughout the Caribbean; however, due to the relatively small populations of the English-speaking territories, only 14% [4] of West Indians are English speakers.

  4. List of countries and territories where English is an ...

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    United Kingdom Caribbean 18,090 No (English-based creole language) Bermuda [d] [2] United Kingdom North America 65,000 Yes British Virgin Islands [2] United Kingdom Caribbean 23,000 No (English-based creole language) Cayman Islands [4] United Kingdom Caribbean 47,000 Yes (English-based creole language) Cook Islands [2] [e] New Zealand: Oceania ...

  5. English language - Wikipedia

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    By the 12th century Middle English was fully developed, integrating both Norse and French features; it continued to be spoken until the transition to early Modern English around 1500. Middle English literature includes Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the Middle English period, the use of ...

  6. History of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Except for Trinidad, the first Caribbean islands were settled during the Archaic Age between 3500 and 3000 BCE. Archaeological sites of this period have been located in Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao and St. Martin, followed closely by Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. [10] This settlement phase is often attributed to the Ortoiroid culture.

  7. Middle English - Wikipedia

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    Middle English (abbreviated to ME [1]) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period.

  8. British colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Several other English colonies were established in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. With the authorization of a royal charter, the Hudson's Bay Company established the territory of Rupert's Land in the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The English also established or conquered several colonies in the Caribbean, including Barbados and ...

  9. Arawakan languages - Wikipedia

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    1SG -face no-tiho 1SG-face my face tiho-ti face- ALIEN tiho-ti face-ALIEN (someone's) face Classifiers Many Arawakan languages have a system of classifier morphemes that mark the semantic category of the head noun of a noun phrase on most other elements of the noun phrase. The example below is from the Tariana language, in which classifier suffixes mark the semantic category of the head noun ...