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Universidad Nacional

Sede Regional Chorotega

Campus Liberia

Course: Diacrona de la Lengua

Inglesa

Prof.: Msc. David Villalobos B.

Topic: Similarities among Old

English and Current German

Students Name: Teresa Torres R.

II Semester

2009

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Current German still uses many Englishpatterns and grammatical features as inold English. Some of them can be some

similarities in spelling, pronunciation and

syntactically features.

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In current German language is still usessome spelling forms of words as in ich( I in modern English form ) in order toform the first singular pronoun as was use inOld English (ic, ih). The unique variation isthat in German is added a h letter at theend of the word. And the pronunciation of theword is similar in both languages.

German still operates on oldergrammatical type.

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One similitude that share currentGerman language with Old English is thepossessive form of words that are not formed

with an apostrophe(`) ; as in Bruders(brothers in the modern English version) forGermany and in old English ic nat( for Idont know in Modern English)

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Germanic language keeping some word orderpatterns as Old English.

E.g: The german sentence that is written as MeinName ist... it is something similar as the old

version min nama...

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The word Wilcume written in oldEnglish has a pronunciation and sharesome spelling features as is represent insome Germany language wordswillKummen with the difference that inGermany is added an n at the end of theword and a K instead of the c but the

pronunciation in both sound is the same.

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In some Germany words there aresimilarities of consonants sounds as in old

english for example the d and .e.g;German: Ich habe einen Bruder namens

Bob.Old English: Broor

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Another similarity among Old English and

Germanis that both share the same pronunciation andSpelling for the Possessive Pronoun mine.

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Some similitude Germanic Language and Old English isspelling of the verb to be is. In Germanic language in thi

b is only form by adding a t sound at the end of the word. ist but is very similar as in spelling as in pronunciationld English.

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Finally, Old English had a diverse groupof dialects, that is reflecting by the greatvaried origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of

Great Britain. One of those dialect was theGermanic. Due to its origins this dialectnowadays keep some forms and structuresfrom the Old English. One of the most ofsignificantly change that this dialect has is thatis commonly the addition of k instead of cin many of the words and some addition ofsome letters at the end of words.

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Bibliography

A comparison between English, German, andtheir ancestors Old English, Old High, and OldLow German. Disponible en://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English#Germanic_origins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English#Literature