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Given that English is itself germanic to an extent, yes. But it's also clearly got a lot of latin influence. All of northwestern europe, of course, had quite a
by chrisco255 2y ago
Given that English is itself germanic to an extent, yes. But it's also clearly got a lot of latin influence.
All of northwestern europe, of course, had quite a bit of DNA mixing over the centuries, so to what extent some DNA is particularly "German" or "English" largely depends on the time period.
- dylan604 2y agoWhat do you mean to an extent? It's definitely not Romantic.
- laurencerowe 2y agoWhile English is a Germanic language a huge number of words come from Old French since that was the language of the ruling elite following the Norman conquest of 1066 and continued to be used in administration for a couple of centuries. Amusingly the Franks after whom French is named were also Germanic but they adopted the Vulgar Latin derived Old French then spoken in Northern France and which the Norse who invaded Northern France adopted before invading England. https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/324w60/how_did_french_become_a_romance_language_and_not/ https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/324w60/how_...