![]() This includes, of course, England’s neighbor across the English Channel: France. ![]() Today, our language is notorious among language-learning circles for being extremely irregular, and unique among many Indo-European languages as having evolved through the absorption of other languages by visiting or invading cultures.Įven though English doesn’t have any close relatives (in the way that Portuguese and Spanish are linguistic cousins), it shares cognates with languages of the countries that surround the British Isles. The Evolution of the English Language: The Great Language LootĮnglish is a Germanic language with a mix of Celtic, Old Norse, French, Latin, and other languages it picked up along the way to becoming the modern English that we know and love today. And the answer to WHY that came to be is, well, complicated.īut to make a long story short… English is weird. The amount of English words borrowed from French is astounding. “Why are there so many French words used in English?” Uncover the Story Behind These 32 Cognates English Words Borrowed From FrenchĮver notice the French influence on the English language and wonder…
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