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English evolved from the two Germanic languages Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse, then Frenchwas blended in. However it has changed so much in grammar and usage that it now bares almost no resemblance to them. English is still very rapidly evolving as it both adds words from a wide variety of languages and creates entirely new words every single day.

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The languages most similar to English are:

  • Dutch
  • Afrikaans
  • Frisian
  • Scots

More distant, but sharing some similarities are:

  1. German
  2. Swedish
  3. Danish
  4. Norwegian
  5. Icelandic


Romance languages have similarity to English only due to the fact that English was "bombarded" with Latin words and structures for centuries.

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