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>On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:21:22 0000 rodlox <Babnol@hidden.email> wrote. > seriously, is Engish (specifically late Medieval English) a Romance >Language? No. It's Germanic, but with a heavy, multi-layer (mostly) French and Latin vocabulary enlargement and replacement, plus many more borrowings (mostly from relatively recent times) from other languages, like Greek (for a lot of scientific, medical and technical terms), and pretty much every language family on the planet -- Native American, Turkic, Malayo-Polynesian, Hindi, Semitic, and various Asian and African languages. I don't actually know of any direct loans from Sumerian, Basque or Burushaski (or any other isolates), but I'm prepared to accept willingly that there are at least Basque (via French or Spanish) loans in use. Oddly, I'm struggling to come up with Uralic and Caucasian loans, too. Paul