How old are English?

Answer:
The language:
  • Modern English: About 300 years old (or less for really modern/colloquial English)
  • Early Modern English: About 450 years old (Shakespeare spoke an early form of this)
  • Middle English: About 600 or 700 years old (Chaucer spoke and wrote in a dialect of Middle English)
  • Old English/Anglo-Saxon: 800 or so years old (spoken by Anglo-Saxons)
  • Proto-English: 900+ years old (spoken by Germanic tribes in Southern Scandinavia who had yet to invade England)
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