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Conference publicationsAbstractsXXII conferenceThe English language as an open and developing systemRussia, 426034 Izhevsk, Udmurtskaja str. 230 Email: galiahsandra12@gmail.com 2 pp. (accepted)The English are very "curious" people, as Winston Churchill once said. "We write Liverpool, but say Manchester". So, to understand the language, we need to know its history. As it is known, Great Britain is an island country, that has been invaded by different nations in different periods of history. The aim of my research paper is to learn more about language evolution while the territory of native speakers was invaded by the other nations. Language is an opened synergetic system. Both, internal and external factors: political, economical, cultural and social -affect it. The language does not just show the people's nature and their culture, but it plays a great role in forming the personality, their national character, ethnic sodality. This topic is up-to-date even nowadays. In the era of globalization and further development of international communications, intensive migration processes: labor migration, forced removal, active tourism development-demanding interaction of languages and cultures take place. The history of development of English language is a great example of its flexibility and dynamics. Great Britain has been conquered by different people at different times. The Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Normans- all of them made a great impact not only into social and economic spheres of society but in the structure and content of the language as well. There are a lot of borrowed words from the Roman languages, for example government, parliament, nation, state, people, military, etc. We can also see lots of borrowed words from the German languages, such as shoe, clothes, sun, earth, moon, day and so on. So the language as an object is being affected by some external and internal factors, whereas it is being developed and serves as the means of people's contacts and intercultural communication.
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