"And Dutch is the closest living language to English unless you count Scots." Dutch is from a different branch of Germanic than English. The "closest relative"

"And Dutch is the closest living language to English unless you count Scots." Dutch is from a different branch of Germanic than English. The "closest relative" is typically held to be Frisian, which is part of the same Germanic subgroup as English.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language