How has the latin language influenced the english language?
Latin influenced by Sanskrit? Sanskrit the oldest known language? That’s just flat wrong. Greek is a major contributor to English? Minimal at best. . To begin, English is a Germanic language; Low West Germanic. Its closest relation is Frisian, spoken along the North Sea coastal area. However, most of its words (not its structure) may be traced to Latin. Sources vary, but something in the 60% – 70% range of the words in the language are Latin-based. That’s a little misleading in that the words you most often hear and see in normal communication are much more likely to be of pure Germanic heritage. At any rate, there are four generalized sources for Latin influence in English. 1. It was there at the start. Before the Germanic peoples moved to the island, their language had already picked up a few words from the Romans. Latin ‘strata’ became German ‘Strasse’ became West German ‘Straat’ became English ‘street’. There are a few words in this category. As a subset of this, there were a very,
