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Old English
29. The Languages in England before English.
We are so accustomed to thinking of English as an inseparable adjunct to the English
people that we are likely to forget that it has been the language of England for a
comparatively short period in the world’s history. Since its introduction into the island
about the middle of the fifth century it has had a career extending through only 1,500
years. Yet this part of the world had been inhabited by humans for thousands of years:
50,000 according to more moderate estimates, 250,000 in the opinion of some. During
this long stretch of time, most of it dimly visible through prehistoric mists, the presence
of a number of cultures can be detected; and each of these cultures had a language.
Nowhere does our knowledge of the history of humankind carry us back to a time when
humans did not have a language. What can be said about the early languages of England?
Unfortunately, little enough.
What we know of the earliest inhabitants of England is derived wholly from the
material remains that have been uncovered by archaeological research. The classification
of these inhabitants is consequently based upon the types of material culture that
characterized them in their successive stages. Before the discovery of metals, human
societies were dependent upon stone for the fabrication of such implements and weapons
as they possessed. Generally speaking, the Stone Age is thought to have lasted in England
until about 2000 B.C., although the English were still using some stone weapons in the
battle of Hastings in 1066. Stone, however, gradually gave way to bronze, as bronze was
eventually displaced by iron about 500 or 600 B.c.1 Because the Stone Age was of long
duration, it is customary to distinguish between an earlier and a later period, known as the
Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age and the Neolithic (New Stone) Age.