英国与美国地理、政治、历史、经济简介。共七课。
●Northern Ireland is composed of the six Irish counties that elected to remain in the union with Great Britain when the remaining 26 counties of Ireland obtained autonomy in 1921.
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Population
(About 60 million)
●English←the Angles & the Saxons & the Jutes←the Germanic tribes ●Scottish↖
the Gaels↖
●Irish ↙ Celtic tribes
●Welsh ← the Britons ↙
●Immigrants(←the West Indies, India & Pakistan, etc.)
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Official Language:English
Main Languages
●English
●Gaelic
●Welsh
Development of English
●Old English (450—1100)
●Middle English (1100—1500)
●Modern English (1150— )
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Indo-European Language
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Origin of English
Indo-European (—Language Family)
↓ ↓
Germanic Group(—Language Group)
↓ ↓
West Germanic (—Language Branch)
↓ ↓
English (—Language)
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Main Mountains
●The Pennines
●The Cumbrian
●The Grampian Mountains
●The Cambrian Mountain Range
Main Rivers
●The Thames
●The Severn
●The Clyde
●The Forth