Expertlatin
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.
- What subgroup does English belong to?
- Where is origin of English language?
- 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.
