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re: is English a Romance language?

• From: "Daniel Prohaska" <daniel@hidden.email>
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:55:26 +0100
• Subject: re: is English a Romance language?
• To: <romconlang@yahoogroups.com>

 

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

<thanks.
 
No. English is and always has been a Germanic language, just as Romanian
never ceased to be a Romance language, despite the influx of Slavic
vocabulary. 
Dan



 


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