Why is English not considered a Romance “language if ~60-80% of words come from latin?
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Because its base isn’t even in Latin but the same language tree as German, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish. The earliest form of the language has no Latin words whatsoever. Read Beowulf in the original Old English and it’s totally unintelligible compared to the English we use today.
If English were a Romance language just because of the Latin influence then Japanese is a Sinitic language because it uses Chinese characters and loanwords.
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