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English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated from Anglia, a peninsula on the Baltic Sea, to the area of Great Britain later named after them: England. Living languages most closely related to English include Scots, followed by the Low Saxon and Frisian languages. While English is genealogically a Germanic language, its vocabulary has been hugely influenced by Old Norman French and Latin, as well as by Old Norse.... Read more
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English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian lang...