Anglo‐Saxons

Japanese: アングロ･サクソン人 - アングロサクソンじん（英語表記）Anglo‐Saxons

The ethnic group that forms the basis of today's British people. Racially, they belong to the northern branch of the Caucasian (white) race, and have physical characteristics such as tall stature, white skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. Linguistically, they belong to the Teutonic (Germanic) language family, a branch of the western branch of the Indo-European language family, and speak English that originated from Low German. They are a mixture of several tribes, including the Saxons, who originally lived in northwestern Germany, the Angles, who lived at the base of the Jutland Peninsula, and the Jutes, who inhabited the same peninsula. As part of the Great Migration of the Germanic peoples, they migrated from their native land to the island of Britannia in the 5th and 6th centuries, and either drove out or dominated the indigenous Britons, occupying what is now England (meaning "land of the Angles").

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

今日のイギリス人の根幹をなす民族。人種的にはコーカソイド大人種(白色人種)の北方系に属し，長身，白色の皮膚，碧眼，金髪などの肉体的特徴をもつ。言語学的にはインド･ヨーロッパ語族の西方系の一派のチュートン語族(ゲルマン民族)に属し，低地ドイツ語からでた英語を語る。北西ドイツを原住地としたサクソン人，ユトランド半島基部に住んだアングル人，同半島に居住したジュート人などいくつかの部族の混成体。ゲルマン民族大移動の一環として，5～6世紀に原住地からブリタニアの島に移動し，先住民族ブリトン人を駆逐または支配して現在のイングランド(〈アングル人の地〉の意味)の地を占拠した。

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