close
    Who were the first to speak English?

    +1  Views: 923 Answers: 6 Posted: 13 years ago

    6 Answers

    The English, old English related to LATIN.....angle.

    certainly was not the greeks, although much of our words do come from the ancient greeks..

    AUSTRALIANS, WHO ELSE.

    ROMOS

    You still don,t speak bloody English ye auld witchitty grub,same as me....KOTF.
    eggplant

    Watch yer tongue. We speak better English than the English (not toffy). Most of the English speak in a strange accent. Sometimes they are hard to understand, but not always.
    PEOPLELOVER

    I must have eaten too many witchitty grubs as one is starting to fall out the bottom of my torso.

    Englishman ???

    Yeah, Ed1530, you got it right! - The first to speak English were the English. But English women also, not just the men.  (From about the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, people living in Britain were called English and were considered to speak English.) 

    If you mean English without a funny accent, that would be Canada. Eh ?



    Top contributors in Languages category

     
    ROMOS
    Answers: 421 / Questions: 0
    Karma: 19600
     
    Colleen
    Answers: 721 / Questions: 2
    Karma: 13695
     
    country bumpkin
    Answers: 170 / Questions: 0
    Karma: 11055
     
    jhharlan
    Answers: 142 / Questions: 0
    Karma: 6335
    > Top contributors chart

    Unanswered Questions

    AvigGoal AvigGoal
    Answers: 0 Views: 3 Rating: 0
    abc999bet
    Answers: 0 Views: 8 Rating: 0
    XOSO66 IO
    Answers: 0 Views: 8 Rating: 0
    xoso789f
    Answers: 0 Views: 8 Rating: 0
    go8vnbio
    Answers: 0 Views: 8 Rating: 0
    TV88
    Answers: 0 Views: 7 Rating: 0
    SIU88
    Answers: 0 Views: 9 Rating: 0
    > More questions...
    515865
    questions
    752514
    answers
    859268
    users