Reply to post: Re: "notoriously difficult language"

Re: "notoriously difficult language"

"I think Frisian is closer."

Frisian and English are considered part of the North Sea Germanic, or Ingvaeonic, subgroup of West Germanic.

Of course, English is unique among Germanic languages in that it took an enormous amount of vocabulary from (Norman) French and from Latin. And then Shakespeare came along and invented about 1700 of the most common English words.