The first people in Ireland were hunter gatherers who arrived about 7,000 to 8,000 BC. This was quite late compared with most of southern Europe. The reason was the climate. The Ice Age began to retreat about 10,000 years ago.

The first people to be called ‘English’ were the Anglo-Saxons, a group of closely related Germanic tribes that began migrating to eastern and southern Great Britain, from southern Denmark and northern Germany, in the 5th century AD, after the Romans had withdrawn from Britain.

The Celts were not a people that one day arrived – it was a dominant culture. The original people of Britain were the ancient Britons and they had lived in this island since the last ice age and had adopted various cultures over millennia.

Before Rome: the ‘Celts’ The idea came from the discovery around 1700 that the non-English island tongues relate to that of the ancient continental Gauls, who really were called Celts.

The Saxons didn’t ‘influence’ the culture of the Britons inhabiting modern England, they supplanted it almost entirely. There’s hardly anything left of underlying Celtic legal, political, or social structures in England. That’s why it’s not a Celtic nation. A Celtic language survived until recent centuries in Cornwall.

Albion

Etymology. The word Brittany, along with its French, Breton and Gallo equivalents Bretagne, Breizh and Bertaèyn, derive from the Latin Britannia, which means “land of the Britons”. This word had been used by the Romans since the 1st century to refer to Great Britain, and more specifically the Roman province of Britain.

Albion is the original name of England which the land was known as by the Romans, probably from the Latin albus meaning white, and referring to the chalk cliffs along the south-east coast of England. Albion was replaced by the Latin ‘Britannia’, and the Romans called the natives of England the Britons.

In Middle English (15th century), they were quite often spelled ‘Ingland’ and ‘Inglish’. In Old English ‘Angle’ (the people) was either ‘Engle’ or ‘Ængle’. In each case, the vowel shift is upwards with the tongue, presumably because the nasal consonant involves placing the tongue quite high.

southern English accent

The de facto official language of the United Kingdom is English, which is spoken by approximately 59.8 million residents, or 98% of the population, over the age of three. An estimated 900,000 people speak Welsh in the UK, an official language in Wales and the only de jure official language in any part of the UK.

The related term ‘British English’ has many ambiguities and tensions in the word ‘British’, so it can be used and interpreted in multiple ways, but it is usually reserved to describe the features common to Anglo-English, Welsh English and Scottish English (England, Wales and Scotland are the three traditional countries …

Over two billion people speak English as of the 2000s, making English the largest language by number of speakers, and the third largest language by number of native speakers. The United Kingdom and the United States, with 67 million and 330 million respectively, have the most native speakers.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (pronounced /ˌsuːpərˌkælɪˌfrædʒəlˌɪstɪkˌɛkspiːˌælɪˈdoʊʃəs/) is an English word, with 34 letters, that was in the song with the same title in the Disney musical movie Mary Poppins.

10 Longest Words in the English Language

• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)
• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters)
• Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)
• Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)
• Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)
• Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters)
• Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters)

Unfortunately, we don’t have the ” longest” word in China, because all our characters are individual. However, we have the most complex word. This one is “Biang”. It is the name of a kind of noodle.