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Linguists classify English as a West Germanic language. The other languages in the West Germanic group are: German, Dutch and Frisian. Historically, many of the fundamental features of English are derived from Anglo-Saxon. Obviously, there is a lot of Latin vocabulary in English, much of which entered the language via French. However, what is decisive is the morphology (forms), not the vocabulary.

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