Mirara Translations offers translation services from and into English language.
 English language is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the first language for most people in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia. New Zealand, and of such newly independent countries as the Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana. It is the official language of more than a dozen African countries, as well as of various British dependencies such as British Honduras, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, and numerous islands in the Caribbean, and the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. In India it has the title of "associate official language" and is generally used in conversation between people from different parts of the country. In dozens of other countries throughout the world it is the unofficial second language. English is the mother tongue of about 300 million people.
The history of the English language may be said to have begun with the arrival in Britain of three Germanic tribes, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in the 5th century. The Angles, who came from Schleswig, settled in the area extending north-ward from the Thames as far as Scotland, and it is from them that the word 'English" evolved. They came from the "angle" or corner of land in present-day Schleswig-Holstein.
The Old English vocabulary consisted of a sprinkling of Latin and Scandinavian (Old Norse) words over an Anglo-Saxon base. Despite the great flood of words into English from Latin, Old Norse, French, and other languages later on, the heart of the language remained the Old English of Anglo-Saxon times. While fewer than 5,000 Old English words remain unchanged and in common use today, these constitute the basic building blocks of our language.
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