Darkwater
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You got some part of your history in regarding to Britain, especially Scotland is correct, but not about Inglis and the English languages.
As mball1297 pointed out to you, English is derived from Germanic language, and they had adopted the Latin alphabets into their writing system.
English didn't derived from Inglis. It is the other around. Inglis is derived largely from Middle English. Inglis is not even a Celtic language, which you seemed to be hinting at. Inglis was displacing Scottish Gaelic, because of the large number of English migrating north. The result is that Inglis is largely English, with a bit of Gaelic.
Actually, the Anglo-Saxon runes is based on Elder runes used by the older Germanic tribes, and these earlier runes had come from Latin or Greek alphabets, originally.
Very fair points Gnostic,given the dark age myth.ALL other evidence points to the contrary however.Modern English was formed around 300 years ago.
Compare Scotlands Initial document,the declaration of arbroath of 1320 to Englands initial documant,the magna carta.
I have many many examples to cite,I would hate to distract from Tariq's lovely thread where the Arabian Angle dovetails so beautifully from the Scots(scot=of melanged ethnecissity) point of view.
Germans & Norse are all Celtic tribes,the runes or staves are way older than Latin language which was only made popular by Roman.
I would be delighted to exhibit some of the Scottish language that can be found online,John Barbour(14th Century),James Hogg(16th c)the Makars Henryson,Dunbar & Douglas(17th century) & others.My favourite is James Barbour,who took the name John as was custom among those who became Scottish Grand Master Mason,Freemasonry of St John(yes,14th c,died 1397)
I would cite Mither Ludge Kilwinning number 00 in my case,opened early 12th C or earlier.
"Put forward the Brunt side of yer shin'
for pride in poets is nae sin"
whereas *Olde English* is a Danish poem,about Danish spearmen,in Danish which happened in Denmark although it was found in England(which underwent a period of Danelaw,co-incidentally).
Middle English is indredibly described as saxon for those Angles with no Norman by Chaucer.
Modern English came from Inglis.
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