Why is English not considered a Romance “language if ~60-80% of words come from latin?
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Because language families are based on far more than vocabulary. Loanwords exist everywhere. English isn’t even the worst; Japanese borrows even more extensively from Chinese and English than English does from French and Latin.
English is Germanic because its underlying structure and core vocabulary is Germanic and it descended from the North Sea Germanic languages that included Old Frisian and Saxon along with Old English.
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