English

The english language belongs to

The english language belongs to

English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related to most other languages spoken in Europe and western Asia from Iceland to India.

  1. What subgroup does English belong to?
  2. Where is origin of English language?
  3. Is English language from Latin or Greek?

What subgroup does English belong to?

The Germanic branch is one of the ten or so Indo-European subfamilies. Germanic languages are English's distant cousins, so to speak. The Germanic family itself has subgroups; English is in the West Germanic branch along with German, Dutch, Afrikaans, and a few others.

Where is origin of English language?

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.

Is English language from Latin or Greek?

Although English is a Germanic language, it has Latin influences. Its grammar and core vocabulary are inherited from Proto-Germanic, but a significant portion of the English vocabulary comes from Romance and Latinate sources.

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