Comment by anthk 4 months ago English it's a hugely romance-influenced Germanic language. 9 comments anthk Reply iamflimflam1 4 months ago I thoroughly recommend this podcast if you are interested in where the English language comes from: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com world2vec 4 months ago English is a mix and merge of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon. mghackerlady 4 months ago english is (latin greek french anglic arabic) in a trench coat ahartmetz 4 months ago The core is just proto-Germanic + Latin via French. A bunch of foreign words don't really count. eru 4 months ago They also important some foreign grammar here and there. hk__2 4 months ago Arabic? mghackerlady 4 months ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi... 2 replies →
iamflimflam1 4 months ago I thoroughly recommend this podcast if you are interested in where the English language comes from: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com
mghackerlady 4 months ago english is (latin greek french anglic arabic) in a trench coat ahartmetz 4 months ago The core is just proto-Germanic + Latin via French. A bunch of foreign words don't really count. eru 4 months ago They also important some foreign grammar here and there. hk__2 4 months ago Arabic? mghackerlady 4 months ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi... 2 replies →
ahartmetz 4 months ago The core is just proto-Germanic + Latin via French. A bunch of foreign words don't really count. eru 4 months ago They also important some foreign grammar here and there.
hk__2 4 months ago Arabic? mghackerlady 4 months ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi... 2 replies →
mghackerlady 4 months ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi... 2 replies →
I thoroughly recommend this podcast if you are interested in where the English language comes from: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com
English is a mix and merge of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon.
english is (latin greek french anglic arabic) in a trench coat
The core is just proto-Germanic + Latin via French. A bunch of foreign words don't really count.
They also important some foreign grammar here and there.
Arabic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi...
2 replies →