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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
german is a romance language ? i'm pretty sure that's not true... it seems to me german is, well, a *germanic* language, which is not the same thing at all. does it have roman origins as well ?
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It has Latinate incursions, but remains Germanic, along with Flemish and the Nordic languages.
English is the true bastard son language of Europe. It draws from Germanic, Romance, Celtic, and then absorbs other languages like Ankh Morpork absorbs invaders. (Ghurka knife, anyone?)