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Their "languages closely related" is way off. They should have just labeled it "easy languages", since that's apparently what they mean. Icelandic, in the thi
by wheels 17y ago
Their "languages closely related" is way off. They should have just labeled it "easy languages", since that's apparently what they mean. Icelandic, in the third category, is uncontroversially more related to English than most of the (predominantly romance) languages in the first category, as English and Icelandic are both Germanic languages.
- klipt 17y agoWhile grammatically, English is Germanic, it did borrow a ton of vocabulary from French after the Norman invasion, so from a lexical perspective it's related to the romance languages by proxy.
- wheels 17y agoYes -- and it also inherited French-style plurals (blessedly), and I believe is the only Germanic language with a gerund.