sentences:  The earliest form of English is called Old English or Anglo-Saxon (c. 550–1066 CE).Old English developed from a set of North Sea Germanic dialects originally spoken along the coasts of Frisia, Lower Saxony, Jutland, and Southern Sweden by Germanic peoples known to the historical record as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.From the 5th century CE, the Anglo-Saxons settled Britain as the Roman economy and administration collapsed.