English people | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-05

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00:01:53 1 English nationality
00:03:28 1.1 Relationship to Britishness
00:06:29 2 Historical and genetic origins
00:06:40 2.1 Near total population replacement of Neolithic farmers by Northern Continental Indo-Europeans
00:07:55 2.2 Anglo Saxon settlement of Britain
00:11:07 3 History of English people
00:11:17 3.1 Early Middle Ages
00:15:45 3.2 Vikings and the Danelaw
00:17:11 3.3 English unification
00:18:13 3.4 Norman and Angevin rule
00:20:23 3.5 In the United Kingdom
00:22:24 3.6 Immigration and assimilation
00:24:05 3.7 Current national and political identity
00:28:55 4 English diaspora
00:30:07 4.1 United States
00:30:55 4.1.1 Previous censuses
00:32:36 4.2 Canada
00:33:18 4.3 Australia
00:34:46 4.4 New Zealand
00:35:46 4.5 Argentina
00:37:02 4.6 Other communities
00:37:32 5 Culture
00:37:58 5.1 Language
00:38:46 5.2 Religion
00:40:54 6 See also
00:41:07 7 Notes



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The English people are a nation and an ethnic group native to England who speak the English language.  The English identity is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn ("family of the Angles").  Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. England is one of the countries of the United Kingdom, and the majority of people living there are British citizens.
The English largely descend from two main historical population groups –  the earlier Celtic Britons (or Brythons) and the Germanic tribes who settled in Britain following the withdrawal of the Romans: the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, they founded what was to become the Kingdom of England (from the Old English Englaland) by the early 10th century, in response to the invasion and minor settlement of Danes beginning in the late 9th century. This was followed by the Norman Conquest and limited settlement of Anglo-Normans in England in the latter 11th century.  In the Acts of Union 1707, the Kingdom of England was succeeded by the Kingdom of Great Britain. Over the years, English customs and identity have become fairly closely aligned with British customs and identity in general.
Today many English people have recent forebears from other parts of the United Kingdom, while some are also descended from more recent immigrants from other European countries and from the Commonwealth.The English people are the source of the English language, the Westminster system, the common law system and numerous major sports such as cricket, football, rugby union, rugby league and tennis. These and other English cultural characteristics have spread worldwide, in part as a result of the former British Empire.