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Germanic invaders (or 'barbarians', Teutons) did.

even though that might be true that invaders brought the language into English, but the invaders names would be, Germans, Normans, and Jutes. during 870 A.D.

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English is in fact a Germanic language, just because Englishmen are Germanic people: Anglo-Saxons.

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