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Re: [romconlang] is English a Romance language?



rodlox scripsit:

>  seriously, is Engish (specifically late Medieval English) a Romance 
> Language?

Seriously, no.  It's a Germanic language that was already rather atypical,
and that has had a large influx of Romance and Latin vocabulary, including
a great many affixes.

But we can still write English with only English words if we work hard.  :-)

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