Anglo-Saxon is the original language of English. The grammar and base vocabulary is Germanic. English picked up little vocabulary from Brithonic it replaced. La

Anglo-Saxon is the original language of English. The grammar and base vocabulary is Germanic. English picked up little vocabulary from Brithonic it replaced. Latin was gone from Britain by Anglo-Saxon invasion. Then some words came from Old Norse. Next was French, providing majority of vocabulary but not the most frequent words. Latin provides a lot of vocabulary but it came later, it is mostly scientific and technical terms.