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Is English a romance language ?

• From: Jacques Dehée <jacquesdehe@hidden.email>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:20:51 -0000
• Subject: Is English a romance language ?
• To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com

I dare say: no, it still retains it's Germanic structures
 
and the most common vocabulary usually has Anglo-Saxon origins,
 
but last estimate was that about 70% of the English lexicon 

was somehow rooted in Latin.

Any comment ?

Thanks ! Regards, Jacques

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