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Early English was a product of the dialects of the Jutes, Saxons and Angles in its earliest form.
Before the Teutonic conquest, most native speakers were Celtic. English is a Germanic language. The Romans brought Latin. The Norman invasion contributed French.
A good resource is the book, A History of the English Language by Albert C Baugh.
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