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English Language
Where does the 'English ' lanuage come from? .Our language was`nt spoken by Queen Bodica etc so how did it come about?.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Modern English is a mixture of Old English, Old French (from that bloke William the Conqueror), Latin, Germanic and even some Indian languages (from the British Empire). Overall a complex mix of bits and pieces from all over the place. This is a link with a little more detail.
http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm
If you are asking about the word 'English' itself, specifically, it is from 'Engle' meaning 'Angles'. The Angles were a northern Germanic tribe who - along with the Jutes and Saxons - emigrated to England after the Romans gave up on us! Hence, we have the racial descriptor, 'Anglo-Saxon', and hence also the word 'English'.
Other than that, Mortar seems to have given a perfectly satisfactory explanation above re the multitude of sources our language came from.