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Language

The Celts spoke Celtic¹, which survives today in the form of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic² and Irish Gaelic. Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are still spoken by some people, also they have suffered from the spread of English. However, all three languages are now officially encouraged and taught at schools.

English developed from Anglo-Saxon and it is a language of the Germanic group³. All the invading peoples, particularly The Norman-French, influenced the English language, and we can find many words in English which are French in origin. Nowadays all Welsh, Scottish and Irish people speak English (even if they speak their own language as well), but they have their own accents and dialects, so you can tell what part of Britain a person is from as soon as they begin to speak. Sometimes the differences in accent are so great that people from different parts of the UK have difficulty in understanding one another. The southern accent is generally accepted as standard English.

QUESTIONS

1. Has the Celtic language survived? In what forms?

2. What did present-day English develop from? Why are there many words of French origin in present-day English? What accent is generally accepted as standard English?

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