Proof: The English Language Is From Germany, Not England!

Hundreds of languages compose the Indo-European family, so linguists divide them into closely related subfamilies. The Germanic branch is one of the ten or so Indo-European subfamilies. Germanic languages are English’s distant cousins, so to speak. The Germanic family itself has subgroups; English is in the West Germanic branch along with German, Dutch, Afrikaans, and a few others. What makes English like the other languages in its subfamily?

West Germanic languages all trace back to one parent language. No one knows its name or exactly how it sounded. Linguists theorize its characteristics from modern languages that descended from it. Just like children who inherit features from their parents, languages that share West Germanic parentage have family characteristics.

L.1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani...
L.2) https://www.grammarly.com/blog/why-en...
L.3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisia
L.4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisians

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