Ben Bucksch wrote: > > Yes. From my POV (not sure, if that is the historically correct > evolution), the English volcabulary is a mix between German and French. > > I read somewhere no the web: "English (and German) are not Latin-based; > they're > Germanic, not Romance."
That's true. Modern English and German are both derived from West Germanic (along with Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, and Yiddish), which derived from Germanic (along with North Germanic, which developed into Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish; and East Germanic, which became Gothic and AIUI eventually died out). Germanic is one of the major families of Indo-European language (which all derive from Proto-Indo-European); the others are: Balto-Slavic (Russian, Lithuanian, Polish,Czech, Bulgarian, etc.), Celtic (Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, etc.), Italic (I think the Romance languages are the only extant Italic languages, but there were other branches at one time), Hellenic (Greek), and Indo-Iranian (e.g. Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and Singhalese from the Indic branch; Pashto, Kurdish, and Persian from the Iranian branch). There are other less important branches too.
